PENGARUH MODEL PEMBELAJARAN FLIPPED CLASSROOM IPA BIOLOGI TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA DI MASA PANDEMI KELAS VIII DI SMP NEGERI 5 TARAKAN
This study investigated the effect of the flipped classroom learning model on students’ critical thinking skills in science-biology during the pandemic for class VIII at SMP Negeri 5 Tarakan. This research was conducted in the even semester of the 2021/2022 academic year at Tarakan 5 Public Middle School. This type of research was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest control design. The research population was all students in class VIII at SMP Negeri 5 Tarakan and used a purposive sampling technique to select the samples. The research sample was class VIII-A and class VIII-C consisting of 30 studentsfor each class so the total sample was 60. The instrument of this research was a test divided into ten questions describing critical thinking related to the material of the human excretory system. The Independent Sample Test obtained the result with a significance value of 0,000, less than 0,05, meaning that Ha is accepted, and H0 is rejected. There were differences in learning outcomes for the experimental class applying the Flipped Classroom model and the control class with the Problem Based Learning model, wich had an average N-Gain value in the experimental class of 54% and 32% in the control class. This showed that the Flipped Classroom learning model had an effect on the critical thinking skills of class VIII students of SMP Negeri 5 Tarakan.