Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran 6E Berbasis STEM Education terhadap Kemampuan Berfikir Kritis dan Scientific Reasoning Siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas pada Topik Bioteknologi

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of the STEM education-based 6E learning model on the critical thinking and scientific reasoning abilities of high school students. The ability to think critically and scientific reasoning is one of the demands expected of every student in the 21st century through the 2013 curriculum and the independent curriculum. Students' critical thinking skills are very important to develop as a basis for the development of other abilities such as scientific reasoning skills. Through the demands of the 2013 curriculum and the independent STEM curriculum with the 6E learning model, it is one of the approaches that is considered capable of increasing students' critical thinking skills and scientific reasoning. Studies on the effect of the STEM education-based 6E learning model on the critical thinking and scientific reasoning abilities of high school students on the topic of biotechnology are still few. The type of research used was quasiexperimental with data collection techniques namely observation, interviews, tests and documentation. The research results were analyzed using the SPPSS Statistics 26.0 program. The results of the Independent Sample Test on critical thinking skills show that the Sig. (2-tailed) of 0.000, which means less than 0.05, this means that there is a significant difference between the control class and the experimental class. Meanwhile for scientific reasoning Sig. (2-tailed) of 0.000, which means less than 0.05, this means that there is a significant difference between the control class and the experimental class. This study shows that there is an influence of the 6E learning model based on STEM education on the critical thinking and scientific reasoning abilities of class XII students of SMAN 3 Jember on the topic of biotechnology. It is hoped that this research can be taken into consideration for conducting further research to improve the abilities of other 21st century students. Then it is hoped that researchers will be able to increase knowledge of the learning models and approaches used.