THE APPLICATION OF GUIDED DISCOVERY LEARNING MODEL TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINGKING ABILITY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ OF MTs AL-HUDA PEKANBARU

Abstract

Critical thinking is one of the high-level thinking stages that can be interpreted as a process of thinking
precisely, directed, reasoned, and reflective in decision-making that can be trusted. This study was aimed to
determine the improvement of critical thinking skills toward Guided Discovery Learning model of grade VIII
students at MTs Al-Huda Pekanbaru on light material. The type of research used was experimental research.
Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data. This analysis gave the description about influence of
Guided Discovery Learning model toward student's critical thinking ability. The subjects of this study were
58 students. The data was collected based on critical thinking skill's test result which consisted of 15 essay
questions for 5 indicators after Guided Discovery Learning model was applied on experiment class and
conventional model on control class. Mean score of sudents' critical thinking ability on experiment class was
78.45 which was in a high category and average score of students' critical thinking skill on control class was
70.52 which was in low category. Based on the result of students' critical thinking skill, it can be concluded
that there was an improvement of critical thinking ability after guided discovery learning model was applied
by 11.24% compared to conventional learning model.