Title:
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS OF HIGH SCHOOL AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL STUDENTS IN INDONESIA: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Authors:
Gregorius Punto Aji and Benedecta Indah Nugraheni

Abstract:
Critical thinking skills are needed in students’ lives, both for now and for the future. Therefore, the development of these skills should be carried out by teachers through students’ learning at schools. This research was conducted with the aim of knowing: 1) the level of critical thinking skills possessed by senior high school and vocational high school students in Indonesia today, 2) the efforts made by teachers in developing the student's critical thinking skills in classroom learning; and 3) instruments to measure the students' critical thinking skills. This research method was content analysis, which was conducted by reviewing and analyzing 22 research articles about the measurement and development of critical thinking skills for senior high school and vocational high school students in Indonesia, which have been published in scientific journals from 2015 to 2020. The results showed that: 1) the level of students’ critical thinking skills were still relatively low; 2) the learning strategy most used by teachers and effective for developing students' critical thinking skills in classroom learning was problem-based learning; and 3) the measurement (assessment) of students' thinking skills was generally carried out by tests (essays and multiple choices), some of which referred to aspects or rubrics measuring critical thinking skills that had been developed by experts.

Keywords:
Critical Thinking Skills, Students, Senior and Vocational High School

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2023.6328