The Effect of Jumping Task and Collaborative Activity on Enhancement of Student Critical Thinking Ability

Abstract

The development of critical thinking ability needs attention in learning. To achieve this goal, collaborative activities must create in learning. The teacher can giving students a jumping task as a stimulated to collaborative activities. This study aims to examine in depth the results of learning observations for subjects in Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and English in two partner schools of the Teacher Training and Education Faculty -University of Lampung, Indonesia. The study was conduct on 33 Senior high school students and 62 junior high school students from 2 partner schools. The focus of the research is observing collaborative activities, and improving students' critical thinking ability. Data analysis was carried out descriptively to an overview of the jumping tasks provided by educators, collaborative activities that occur to be able to create a learning community, and increase of students' critical thinking skills. The results of the study show that giving jumping tasks in learning activities (Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and English) enables collaborative activities in the learning community to trigger students' critical thinking ability in solving problem.

Students' Critical Thinking Process in Solving Jumping Task According to Gregorc's Thinking Style

“…The results showed that jumping tasks could bring out students' critical thinking process based on IDEALS steps. The results of this study are strengthened by and Noer (2019), stating that jumping tasks as problem-solving can be used to enhance students' critical thinking process. This study showed that most subjects had difficulty in doing jumping tasks.…”

“…Furthermore, research by Kurniati and Trapsilasiwi (2017) described the collaboration process in the application of collaborative learning by jumping tasks in a mathematics classroom. Furthermore, Noer, Hasnunidah, and Abdurrahman (2019) examined the effect of collaborative learning and jumping tasks on students' critical thinking skills. In contrast to those studies, this study focused on describing Year 7 students' critical thinking process in solving jumping tasks based on Gregorc's thinking style on the algebraic subject.…”

Lesson study with sharing and jumping tasks in online mathematics classrooms for rural area students

“…Most students agreed that the sharing and jumping task reduced the difficulty of comprehending the lesson (Figure 13) and improved their comprehension of the topic (Figure 14). The success of implementing Sharing and Jumping tasks in learning has been widely reported in various fields of study, such as Science (Fatimah et al, 2018;Ogegbo et al, 2019), Mathematics (Gustiningsi et al, 2022), and other lessons (Noer et al, 2019;Shi & Cheng, 2021). Increased student problem-solving skills contributed to this accomplishment (Hobri et al, 2020).…”