Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 17, Issue 2, Article 11 (Dec., 2016) Susriyati MAHANAL, Siti ZUBAIDAH, Arsad BAHRI, and Maratusy SYAHADATUD DINNURRIYA Improving students’ critical thinking skills through Remap NHT in biology classroom Contents Next

Improving students’ critical thinking skills through Remap NHT in biology classroom

 

Susriyati MAHANAL¹, Siti ZUBAIDAH^1*, Arsad BAHRI² and Maratusy SYAHADATUD DINNURRIYA¹

¹Biology Department, Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri Malang, INDONESIA
²Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri Makassar, INDONESIA

*Corresponding author E-mail: siti.zubaidah.fmipa@um.ac.id

Received 17 Oct., 2016
Revised 10 Dec., 2016

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Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Student-Centered Learning to Improve Critical Thinking Skill
  • The Low Students’ Reading Interest
  • Remap NHT to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking Skill and Reading Interest
• Materials and Methods
• Results
• Discussion
  • High Improving Critical Thinkings’ Score Using Remap NHT
  • Improve Critical Thinking Skill by Reading Activity
  • Improve Critical Thinking Skill by Constructing Concept Map
  • Improve Critical Thinking Skills by NHT
  • Improve Critical Thinking Skills by Completing Concept Map
  • Traditional Learning didn’t Adequate to Improve Critical Thinking Skill
• Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
• References

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Abstract

Previous studies in Malang, Indonesia showed that there were the failure biology learning caused by not only the low students’ prior knowledge, but also biology learning model has not improved the students' critical thinking skills yet, which affected the low of cognitive learning outcomes. The learning model is required to improve students' critical thinking skills. Learning model that considered able to solve this problem is a model that combines reading, constructing concept maps, and the implementation cooperative learning type Numbered Heads Together (Remap NHT) in the classroom. This study was quasi experimental research that compared the effect of Remap NHT learning model and traditional learning in biology classroom to improve critical thinking skills at X^th grade students of senior school in Malang, Indonesia. The results showed that the implementation of Remap NHT during biology classroom showed the effect on students' critical thinking skills.

Keywords: concept map, critical thinking skill, learning model, number head together, reading