The Effect of Applying Blended Learning using WhatsApp Group on Students Critical Thinking Skills in Online Learning in Elementary Schools (Pre- Experimental Study of Social Sciences in The Fourth Grade of SDN Cibabat 5)

Amalia, Mila
Sapriya, Sapriya

These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in The International Conference on Elementary Education (ICEE) which is being hosted by the Elementary Education Study Programme School of Postgraduate Studies, Universitas Pendidikan
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Proceedings The 3rd International Conference on Elementary Education

This research aims to determine the effect of applying blended learning using WhatsApp Group (WAG) on students' critical thinking skills in online learning in elementary schools. The research was conducted to obtain an overview of critical thinking skills in Social Sciences subjects. The subjects of this study were 40 fourth-grade students of SDN Cibabat 5, Cimahi Utara District, Cimahi City. This type of research is pre-experimental research with a One-Shot Case Study design. The data analysis technique used statistical tests with the One-Sample t-test at the 95% confidence level. The results of the research show that the value of t-count > t-table is 3.909> 2.023, and the value of sig. (2-tailed) <0.05, that meaning there is an effect of applying blended learning using WhatsApp Group (WAG) on students' critical thinking skills in online learning in elementary schools.