Google Sites Based on Guided Inquiry to Improve Social Studies Critical Thinking in Elementary Schools
Keywords:
Google Sites, Guided Inquiry, Social Studies Critical ThinkingAbstract
The increase in Indonesian internet users will reach 215 million people in 2023, increasing from 77.02% to 78.18%. Apart from that, students' critical thinking, evaluation, inference, explanation and self-regulation skills still need to be improved. This research aims to develop Google sites based on guided inquiry. This type of research is development research using the Borg and Gall model procedure. The research subjects are learning media experts, material experts and language experts. The test subjects were 30 students and 2 teachers. Data collection methods use observation, interviews, questionnaires and tests. Data collection instruments use questionnaires and test questions. Data analysis techniques use descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis. The results of the research were that media expert validation produced an average of 4.64, material experts produced an average of 4.67 and language expert validation results were 4.7. Based on teacher and student trials, it shows that the media is in the very good category, declared suitable for use in learning. The effectiveness test results obtained an N-gain of 56.2 in the "quite effective" category. Student response activities obtained an N-gain of 77.99 in the "effective" category. It was concluded that Google Sites-based media integrated with guided inquiry can improve the critical thinking of fifth-grade elementary school students compared to conventional learning. This research implies that the guided inquiry-based Google Sites developed can be used in learning.
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Kori Sundari, Arita Marini , Nina Nurhasanah
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with the Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (JERE) agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. (See The Effect of Open Access)