CD Tesis
Pengaruh Kemandirian Belajar Dan Kemampuan Akademik Terhadap Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis siswa dan Efikasi Diri sebagai Variabel Intervening pada mata pelajaran IPS di SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Teluk Kuantan
Critical thinking is one of the high-level thinking processes that can be used in the formation of students' conceptual systems. That can be used in the formation of students' conceptual systems. In reasoning, critical thinking skills are needed or in other words, critical thinking skills are part of reasoning. The ability to think critically will make it easier for the individual to analyze problems in life, and make it a policy resource for personal and community needs.
If critical thinking is developed, a person will tend to seek the truth, think divergently (open and tolerant of new ideas), can analyze problems well, think systematically, be curious, mature in thinking, and can think independently. The thinking ability possessed by each student is different and has a different learning spirit for each student. With the difference in thinking ability, one solution to overcome it is the right learning method to increase students' enthusiasm for learning. One of the thinking abilities that can be formed with the right learning method is the independent character of students. Supported by various factors, namely factors from within oneself such as the willingness from within to learn by oneself and from outside oneself independently. Besides the ability of students to think, there are also factors that greatly affect the achievement of student learning outcomes, namely learning independence.
This study aims to analyze the effect of learning independence and academic ability on students' critical thinking skills and self-efficacy as an intervening variable. The data used consisted of primary data. Data were collected using a questionnaire. The population of this study were students in grades VII, VIII and IX of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Teluk Kuantan as many as 349 students with a sample of 186 students. The analysis method used is descriptive analysis and verification analysis (Path Analysis).
The results showed that learning independence has a positive and significant effect on the critical thinking skills of Muhammadiyah 1 Teluk Kuantan Junior High School students, meaning that the higher the learning independence, the higher the level of critical thinking of students. Academic ability has a positive and significant effect on the critical thinking skills of Muhammadiyah 1 Teluk Kuantan Junior High School students. This means that if the academic ability variable increases, then critical thinking will be higher. Learning independence and academic ability have an influence on critical thinking variables mediated by self-efficacy variables. Academic ability has a positive effect on self-efficacy. This means that if the academic ability variable increases, then self-efficacy will be higher. Learning independence on critical thinking through self-efficacy shows a positive but insignificant effect, meaning that the higher the learning independence, the higher the effect on critical thinking through self-efficacy.
Keywords: Learning Independence, Academic Ability, Critical Thinking, Self-Efficacy
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