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Critical Thinking Dispositions and Critical Thinking Skills’s Preservice Science Teachers’s
Last modified: 2021-12-02
Abstract
This study aimed to describe and examine the relationsips between critical thinking dispositions and critical thinking skills of Preservice Science Teacher. In this research quantitavive descriptive metdhod was utilized. Thirthy preservice science teacher’s of Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya was participated in this study. The instrument used in this study was a critical thinking disposition inventory and critical thinking skills test. The data were collected through questioner and test. The results showed that: (1) the disposition critical thinking skills of preservice science teacher on the sevent indicators (truth-seeking, open-mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, self-confidence, inquisitiveness, and maturity of judgment) were categorized as very low; (2) critical thinking skills of preservice science teacher on the five indicators (interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, and explanation) were categorized as low; and (3) there is a meaningfull relationship was found, there was significant correlation between pre-service science teachers’ critical thinking dispositions and critical thinking skills. An improvement is needed in lecturing learning model to improve student’s crtitical thingking dispositions and critical thinking skills.
Keywords
critical thinking dispositions; critical thinking skills; preservice science teacher