Marosa Robi'atul Adawiyah, Ibrohim Ibrohim, Mohamad Amin
This study measured the effect of implementing Google Workspace-assisted Problem Based Learning (PBL) on students' critical thinking skills in biology learning. Due to the emerging of Covid-19, the teaching was carried out online. Google Workspace is an application used to facilitate online learning during the pandemic. This research employed a quasi-experiment method with a non-equivalent control group design. The samples were determined by a purposive sampling technique and involved the students of SMA Laboratorium UM Malang, grade XI IPA 3 (experimental class) and XI IPA 4 (control class). The experimental class was taught using Google Workspace-assisted PBL Model, while the control one used the conventional learning model. Short answer questions compiled based on Greenstein's critical thinking skill indicators were applied for measuring students' critical thinking skills. Pretest and posttest were applied, and the increase of students' scores between the two tests are the basis for determining the improvement of students' critical thinking skills. This study found that the average score increase for the experimental class is 90%, and 56% for the control class is 56%. For each indicator of critical thinking skills, the score increase of the experimental class ranged from 19%-35% and 8%-23% of the control one. The statistical procedure (ANCOVA) confirmed the significant difference in critical thinking skills of the two groups. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, Jalan Semarang No. 5, Malang, 65145, Indonesia