Description of Students' Critical Thinking Abilities in Solving Timss Questions in Grade VIII of SMPN 3 Barru, Barru District

Abstract

students' critical thinking skills in completing TIMSS questions in students class VIII are still lacking so the researchers took the initiative to describe students' critical thinking skills. This research aimed to describe the critical thinking skills of students in completing TIMSS questions in class VIII of SMPN 3 Barru, in the high, medium and low categories. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The data collection was carried out through students' critical thinking skills tests and interview guidelines. All VIII grade students of SMPN 3 Barru were given a test of students' critical thinking skills in the form of TIMSS questions. Data regarding students' critical thinking skills were then triangulated with interview data. 3 students consisting of 1 high, medium and low ability students. to be interviewed. Furthermore, the analysis of all data is carried out with the following steps: the data reduction stage, the data presentation stage and the conclusion drawing stage. The results showed that: 1 high category subject met the indicator of students' critical thinking skills in completing TIMSS questions by answering all the test questions given. Subjects identify well and understand the purpose of the problem given is able to provide further explanation because the subject is able to identify the definition of the problem and provide information about how to get the essence of solving the problem. Two subjects in the moderate category were not able to meet all the indicators of students' critical thinking skills on the TIMSS test sheet but were able to provide what information was known and what was asked based on the questions they had done. The information provided at the interview was the same as what was written on the sheet. tests and subjects are able to identify definitions of questions. Three subjects in the low category have not been able to explain the purpose of their writing, the subject is also not qualified to work on problems as given.