Comparison on Critical Thinking Skill and Cognitive Learning Outcome among Students of X Grade with High and Low Academic Ability in Ternate through Reading Questioning Answering (RQA) Strategy

Authors

• Murni Thalib, Biology Education–Universitas Negeri MalangFollow
• Aloysius Duran Corebima, Biology Education–Universitas Negeri MalangFollow
• Abdul Ghofur, Pendidikan Biologi Pascasarjana, Universitas Negeri MalangFollow

Abstract

Equity of education can be attained by the implementation of Reading Questioning Answering (RQA) learning strategy. RQA has potential to optimize the critical thinking skills and cognitive learning outcome of students. The aim of this study is to compare the critical thinking skills and cognitive learning outcome among students with different academic ability through RQA strategy. The subjects are students in X grade of SMA Al-Khairat and SMAN 5 Ternate. The result showed that the critical thinking skills percentage of low academic ability students is higher 5.691% than high academic ability students, and the cognitive learning outcome percentage of low academic students is higher 7.067% than high academic students. Therefore, RQA able to empower the critical thinking skills and cognitive learning outcomes of low academic ability students.

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Thalib, Murni; Corebima, Aloysius Duran; and Ghofur, Abdul (2017) "Comparison on Critical Thinking Skill and Cognitive Learning Outcome among Students of X Grade with High and Low Academic Ability in Ternate through Reading Questioning Answering (RQA) Strategy," Jurnal Pendidikan Sains: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17977/jps.v5i1.9018
Available at: https://citeus.um.ac.id/jps/vol5/iss1/5