Tracing Learning Styles: How do Class VIII Students Hone Critical Thinking Skills?

Abstrak

This study was motivated by problems related to students' difficulties in mastering and analyzing mathematics problems. The purpose of this research is to recognize the critical thinking skills of grade VIII students with visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. The research taken is exploratory research by utilizing qualitative descriptive methodology. The VIII grade students as participants in this study; there is one student who prefers visual education, one student who prefers auditory education, and one student who prefers kinesthetic education. Based on the research findings, students with kinesthetic learning styles meet two indicators of critical thinking ability out of 6 indicators in TKBK, students with visual learning styles meet more than six indicators in the first problem, four indicators in the second problem and one indicator in the third problem of TKBK, auditory learning style students meet four indicators in the first and second problems and meet five indicators in the third problem of TKBK. So it can be concluded that kinesthetic learning style students show low critical thinking skills, while students with visual and auditory learning styles provide high critical thinking skills.

Kata kunci

• Critical thinking
• Learning style
• students