Biosfer: Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2014): Biosfer: Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi

The Effect of Students Knowledge about Environmental Pollution (High Knowledge Vs Low Knowledge) to Critical Thinking

Izzaty, Atiya Mustawli (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
18 Jan 2018

Abstract

Environmental pollution has become a serious problem compromising human health. It is believed that providing knowledge about this matter, particularly for high school students, will improve their critical thinking by which participation to solve the problem increases. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of students knowledge about environmental contamination to students critical thinking. This study was conducted in SMAN 54 Jakarta on May 2012 using ex post facto study method with post-test only control group design. Samples were taken from grade 10 students selected by simple random sampling. The result of prerequisite tests performed by t-test and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test showed that data were homogenous and normally distributed while hypothesis testing by t-test at α = 0.001 it was found that students knowledge about environmental pollution has an effect to students critical thinking.

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biosfer

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Subject

Education

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BIOSFER: Journal of Biology Education (BiosferJPB), Journal of Biology Education is published as one of the efforts to publish research results related to Biology education. Biosfer: Journal of Biology Education received research results from various parties oriented to the upgrades of science and ...