The Correlation Between Critical Thinking Skills with Student Metacognitive Skills in Ecosystem Material

Abstract

Critical thinking skills are the active thinking process by someone by analyzing information, questioning the truth by remembering old memories so that a conclusion is obtained. Critical thinking skills are influenced by student readiness factors in learning including planning, monitoring and evaluation. Therefore, students with low critical thinking skills need to improve thinking skills by planning the systematic learning through empowerment of metacognitive skills. This study aims to determine the correlation between critical thinking skills with the metacognitive skills on ecosystem material. This research was conducted at SMAN 13 Jakarta in year 2021/2022. The method used is a quantitative descriptive method with a correlation study. This research consists of two variables, namely critical thinking skills as independent variables and metacognitive skills as a dependent variable. The sample used was 135 students of class XI MIPA which had obtained the elected ecosystem material through the Simple Random Sampling technique. Data collection is done through survey techniques using critical thinking skills tests and metacognitive skills tests. Based on the results of the study obtained a correlation coefficient of 0, 346 in the correlation of critical thinking skills with student metacognitive skills on ecosystem material. The results of the analysis show that there is a positive correlation between critical thinking skills with student metacognitive skills on ecosystem material.