The Influence of Critical Thinking Skill on Students' Social Sensitivity in History Learning

摘要

This research is intended to know (1) the level of students' critical thinking skill and (2) the impact of critical thinking skill toward students' social sensitivity. The research methodologies used were (1) history learning which was emphasized on critical history learning, (2) the data collections were (a) the essay test which was used to measure the level of students' critical thinking skill and (b) questionnaire which was used to collect the data of students' social sensitivity, (3) the data analysis was done through the essay test which was used to collect the data about historical critical thinking skill as the independent variable (X). Meanwhile, the questionnaire was used to collect the data of student's social sensitivity as the dependent variable (Y). The influence of X toward Y was analyzed through product moment correlation to know the influence of the two variables. There were several findings. The first was level of students' critical thinking skill: (a) 30% of the respondents could achieve very good critical thinking score, (b) 40% of the respondents could achieve good critical thinking score, and (c) 30% of the respondents only achieve fair critical thinking score. The second was the influence of X toward Y: (a) the impact of X toward Y_1 showed a positive yet insignificant impact, (b) the impact of X toward Y_2 showed a positive impact, (c) the impact of X toward Y_3 showed a very significant impact, and (d) the impact of X toward Y_4 showed a positive yet very insignificant impact.