IMPROVING STUDENT’S OF CLASS XII IPA-1 AT MAN 8 JAKARTA ABILITY IN CRITICAL THINKING BY USING PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING METHOD
ABSTRACT Many successful students complete their assignments, do well on tests, and get good grades , yet they don’t ever learn to think critically and deeply. Our schools turn out students who think too superficially, staying on the surface of problem rather than stretching their minds and becoming deeply engaged in meaningful thinking. Teacher should guide students to be better thinker s . Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method is one way to encourage students to think critically. The problem which is investigated in this research is the implementation of problem-based learning method to improv e student’s ability in critical thinking in physics. The subject of this research is the students of class XII IPA-1 at MAN 8 East Jakarta. To solve this problem , the researcher using classroom action research (CAR) d esign. Kurt-Lewin model’s CAR involves four steps , Planning , Action, Observing and Reflecting in every cycle in this research . All of data from this researc