The Effect of PBL and DRTA on Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension to Students in Elementary School

Abstract

This research aims to know the difference in effectiveness between the PBL and DRTA in terms of critical thinking and reading comprehension in elementary school. This study is a quasi experiment research. The subject of research is the elementary school students. The instruments used were the utilization of the test. The data collected is the data of reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. The datawas analyzed with the MANOVA with the assistance of of SPSS program. The results showed that there was a difference inthe effectiveness between the PBL and DRTA. Increased critical thinking skills of second grade experiment was 35.74% for class 1 using PBL and 72.75% to class 2 using DRTA. In regard to the improvement of reading comprehension in the experimental class 1 class with PBL, the result was 42.13% and experimental class 2 with DRTA was