The effect of reading assignments in guided inquiry learning on students’ critical thinking skills

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Effectiveness of guided inquiry learning model to improve students' critical thinking skills at senior high school E K Nisa, T Koestiari, M Habibbulloh et al. The effect of reading assignments in guided inquiry learning on students' critical thinking skills A SyarkowiPhysics education department, Jambi University, Jambi, Indonesia Corresponding author's email: ahmad.syarkowi@ymail.comAbstract. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of reading assignment in guided inquiry learning on senior high school students' critical thinking skills. The research method which was used in this research was quasi-experiment research method with reading task as the treatment. Topic of inquiry process was Kirchhoff law. The instrument was used for this research was 25 multiple choice interpretive exercises with justification. The multiple choice test was divided on 3 categories such as involve basic clarification, the bases for a decision and inference skills. The result of significance test proved the improvement of students' critical thinking skills of experiment class was significantly higher when compared with the control class, so it could be concluded that reading assignment can improve students' critical thinking skills.

How to Improve Critical Thinking in Physics Learning? A Systematic Literature Review

“…Guided inquiry refers to Spiro and Knisely has five stages; observing and generalizing questions, making a hypothesis, designing the experiment, Conducting an experiment to obtain information, analyzing data, and experiment reports (Maknun, 2020;Medriati et al, 2021). Guided inquiry in the implementation of physics learning is carried out based on blended learning (Zain & Jumadi, 2018), reading assignments in guided inquiry learning (Syarkowi, 2018), guided inquiry learning assisted by computer simulations (Ratna et al, 2021), and guided inquiry model only (Nisa et al, 2018;Maknun, 2020;Medriati et al, 2021;Sermeus et al, 2021;Simatupang et al, 2021). Guided inquiry-based on blended learning in physics is made by online and face-to-face learning.…”

“…Problemsolving and habituation of thinking encourage students to explore so that learning is more meaningful (Simatupang et al, 2021). Through experiments such as scientific exploration and explanation, guided inquiry activities can improve critical thinking skills (Syarkowi, 2018).…”

“…Critical thinking skills are essential competencies highly emphasized in higher education (Halpern, 2013). Research on prospective physics teacher-students is carried out in various universities (Etkina & Planinšič, 2015;Syarkowi, 2018;Sutarno et al, 2019;Malik & Ubaidillah, 2020;Verawati et al, 2021). Research related to improving critical thinking was carried out at the high school level.…”

“…Author Model of teaching Frequency 1 Nisa et al, 2018;Syarkowi, 2018;Zain & Jumadi, 2018;Maknun, 2020;Medriati et al, 2021;Ratna et al, 2021;Sermeus et al, 2021;Simatupang et al, 2021 Guided inquiry 2 Malik, Setiawan, Suhandi, Permanasari, Nasrudin et al, 2018;Malik, Setiawan, Suhandi, Permanasari, Samsudin et al, 2018;Setiawan et al, 2018;Lisdiani et al, 2019;Sutarno et al, 2019;Putra et al, 2021;Setya et al, 2021 Higher-order thinking laboratory (HOT Lab)…”

The Analysis of Initial Achievement of Crosscutting Concept: Cause-Effect and Critical Thinking of Junior School Students in Ceramics Crafts-Integrated Natural Science Learning

“…According to [11], critical thinking skill of student at grade 9 of Junior High School (SMP) is categorized as low. Required learning activities that can provoke critical thinking skills [12]. Learning topic selection can also influence a learning.…”