DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING DEVICES BASED IN INQUIRY TO EMPOWER SKILLS CRITICAL THINKING OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The purpose of this research was produce teaching materials that be empowered critical thinking skills of senior high school students with inquiry-based learning on content of rate reaction. This research was conducted in two phases, namely the phases of development of teaching materials following Kemp design instructional and the implementation phase of learning in the classroom by using one-group pretest posttest design.  The results of this research showed that teaching materials include RPP, Worksheet, Student Book and Learning Outcame Test (Cognitive Product and Processes, Affective, Psychomotor and Critical Thinking Test) is feasible and can be used. The results of the implementation of the teaching materials showed that (1) the level of readability of the Worksheet and Student Book have a high criterion, which means that most students are able to absorb the massage contained in them, (2) feseability of RPP have a high criterion, (3) majority of students are doing activities with associated the learning process, (4) Students respond are positive toward the learning process,(5) Mean of the mastery of critical thinking skills test in the content (domain specific test) is 81%, (6) Critical thinking test of the beyond of the content (general specific test) is 75% competend category and 25% less competend category from the all indicator, and (7)The correlation between critical tinking skills on the content (domain specific) is sufficient positive (r=0.620) with critical tinking skill beyondthe content (general domain).