Peningkatan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis melalui Think Pair Share Berbantuan Mind Mapping

This study aims to determine the difference in critical thinking skills between students who learn using the Think Pair Share learning model assisted by Mind Mapping and students who are taught using the Direct Instruction model. The type of research is a quasi-experiment with a Randomized Nonequivalent Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. The research sample consists of 10th grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Kubutambahan who were selected randomly by lottery. Based on the results of random class selection, class X.5 was selected as the experimental class, which used the Think Pair Share model assisted by Mind Mapping, and class X.6 was selected as the control class, which used the Direct Instruction model. The instrument used in this study was an essay test related to indicators of students' critical thinking skills. The data were analyzed using quantitative descriptive analysis and independent samples t-tests to determine the difference in critical thinking skills between students who learned using the Think Pair Share learning model assisted by Mind Mapping and students who were taught using the Direct Instruction model. The hypothesis test results showed that the value of ???? = 0.0001, which means that there was a significant difference in critical thinking skills between students who learned using the Think Pair Share learning model assisted by Mind Mapping and students who were taught using the Direct Instruction model. The improvement in critical thinking skills of students in the experimental class was 45.41% better than the control class that used the Direct Instruction model