The profile of Junior High School students’ critical thinking skills and concept mastery level in local wisdom based on outdoor learning

Abstract

Abstract The aims of this descriptive research were describe profile of students’ critical thinking skills, the profile of students’ concept mastery through the implementation of local wisdom-based outdoor learning and the perspective of local wisdom-based outdoor learning and its potency to improve the critical thinking skills and concept mastery in the future. The sample involved 14 of 47 schools, 14 teachers and 40 students. The data were collected using interview worksheet for teachers and open-ended questionnaire for students and analysed using descriptive method. Few teachers did encourage students to have outdoor learning, and the facts showed that the students’ critical thinking and concepts mastery level were low. Teachers commonly used power point presentation on teaching-learning activities to illustrate intangible learning object materials. The data analysis results showed a significant correlation between local wisdom-based outdoor learning and students’ critical thinking skills and concept mastery level. Their profiles were low with an average of 53.85 % and 51.3 %. There was no implementation of local wisdom-based outdoor learning. Accordingly, local wisdom-based outdoor learning can be implemented to improve students’ critical thinking skills and concept mastery level.