Profile of Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in Physics Learning: A Preliminary Study of Games Application Integrated Augmented Reality

Abstract

The ability to think critically is included in one of the 21st-century skills students need to have. However, sometimes students have difficulty applying their critical thinking skills while facing a physics problem. Therefore, this research aims to determine students’ critical thinking skills in physics learning, especially in magnetic field subjects. This research method is a preliminary study with a sample of 58 high school students in Sidoarjo, East Java. Data collection techniques by sharing critical thinking skills tests and student response surveys. Then the data is analyzed using qualitative description to represent the research results. The research findings are that students have an average critical thinking ability score of 1.023 or are on low criteria. In more detail, six students have a moderate level of critical thinking ability, while 52 students have a low level. Therefore, the low ability to think critically becomes an urgent problem and needs to be solved immediately. Furthermore, there needs to be innovation to overcome these problems, one of which is to use the AR-integrated game application “Adventuring Physics.” These games are necessary to improve students’ critical thinking skills in physics, especially magnetic field subjects.