An Analysis of Student’s Critical Thinking to Improve the Higher-Order Thinking Skill of Undergraduate Pharmacy Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210618.034How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- higher-order thinking skill, learning process, student’s critical thinking
- Abstract
The learning process in the 21st century must be contextual and require the Higher-Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) to prepare students in their life situations. The aim of this research is to analyze the students’ critical thinking skill in improving HOTS of undergraduate pharmacy students. This student’s essential thinking skill including HOTS, knowledge of theoretical concepts, and skill of students in the learning process. This research was conducted towards the first-year students of pharmacy undergraduate with three major subjects, including cell biology, basic chemistry, and basic pharmaceuticals. The qualitative descriptive method with assessment, observation, and interview in collecting data was used in this research. The population sample made up of thirty-eight students. The categories of students’ critical thinking are divided into a low, moderate, and high percentages. The study shows that higher-order thinking skill of students was improved when a learning process pushed in activating the student’s critical thinking.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hartini Haritani AU - Yuyun Febriani AU - Arief Rafsanjani AU - Muhlisun Azim PY - 2021 DA - 2021/06/21 TI - An Analysis of Student’s Critical Thinking to Improve the Higher-Order Thinking Skill of Undergraduate Pharmacy Students BT - Proceedings of the 2nd Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 167 EP - 172 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210618.034 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210618.034 ID - Haritani2021 ER -