Penggunaan Simulasi PhET terhadap Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis dan Keterampilan Proses Sains Siswa SMA
Abstract
This study investigated the use of PhET simulation on high school students’ critical thinking and science process skills in Newton’s Laws. A quantitative pre-experimental study employed a One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design, without a control group, with 24 Grade XI MIPA students at SMA Negeri 1 Jerebuu, selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected using a critical-thinking test and a science-process-skills observation sheet. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Shapiro-Wilk normality test, and the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test. The mean critical-thinking score increased from 31.04 before treatment to 88.85 after learning with PhET. The Wilcoxon test yielded Z = -4.289 and Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) = 0.000, indicating a significant difference between pretest and posttest scores. All six observed science-process-skill indicators were categorized as very good, with percentages ranging from 82.29% to 88.54%. The findings show a significant difference in critical-thinking scores before and after PhET-assisted learning and a very good level of observed science process skills. Because the design had no control group, these results describe differences between pretest and posttest scores and do not establish a causal effect of PhET.
Keywords
critical thinking, Newton’s Laws, PhET simulation, science process skills
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