AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT’S CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN PHYSICS LESSON IN SMA 8 PEKANBARU

Critical thinking ability is one of the high-level thinking skills that are problem solving skills essentially. Themain purpose of this research is to describe the level of students' critical thinking skills in physics subjects atSMAN 8 Pekanbaru. The population in the study were 316 students of grade 11 of SMAN 8 Pekanbaru.Samples were taken by purposive sampling so that a sample of 33 students. The instrument of this research isa test of critical thinking skills which is based on 12 indicators of critical thinking skills. Data was collectedby giving a test of critical thinking skills to the sample. Data analysis in this study used descriptive, whichprovide an overview of the level of critical thinking skills. The results of this study provide information thatthe average percentage of critical thinking skills students of SMAN 8 Pekanbaru is 50.88% with a moderatelevel of critical thinking ability.