Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Education and Science, ICES 2021, November 17-18, 2021, Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

Teachers’ Perception on Critical Thinking Skills of Vocational High School Students

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.17-11-2021.2318632,
        author={Purnamawati  Purnamawati and Anas  Arfandi and Muhammad  Yahya and Sabran  Sabran and Fitrah  Darmawan},
        title={Teachers’ Perception on Critical Thinking Skills of Vocational High School Students},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Education and Science, ICES 2021, November 17-18, 2021, Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICES},
        year={2022},
        month={6},
        keywords={critical thinking; teaching industry; vocational high school},
        doi={10.4108/eai.17-11-2021.2318632}
    }
    
  • Purnamawati Purnamawati
    Anas Arfandi
    Muhammad Yahya
    Sabran Sabran
    Fitrah Darmawan
    Year: 2022
    Teachers’ Perception on Critical Thinking Skills of Vocational High School Students
    ICES
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.17-11-2021.2318632
Purnamawati Purnamawati1,*, Anas Arfandi2, Muhammad Yahya3, Sabran Sabran3, Fitrah Darmawan3
  • 1: Universitas Negeri Makassar, Department of electronics engineering education
  • 2: Universitas Negeri Makassar, Department of civil and planning engineering education
  • 3: Universitas Negeri Makassar, Department of automotive engineering education
*Contact email: purnamawati@unm.ac.id

Abstract

This study aims to identify the critical thinking skills of SMK students based on the teachers’ assessment. It is one of the needs analyses of our research, which the attention to develop a teaching industry learning model in order to improve the critical thinking skills of SMK students. This research includes descriptive analysis with the subjects of SMK teachers that focuses on their industrial electronics expertise competencies in the 2021/2022 academic year. Data on the students ‘skills were collected through questionnaires which were distributed to teachers of productive, adaptive, and normative subjects. Determination of the sample used proportional random sampling. The results showed that most teachers thought that the dominant students did not have good critical thinking skills. For this reason, further action is needed in the form of developing learning models that can help teachers in the learning process in stimulating students to think critically.