Fostering Critical Thinking Skill through Optimizing Science Process Skills in Physics Learning

Low science process skills is along with low students' critical thinking skill. The result of this research indicated that there was an increase of the score in critical thinking skill before and after learning process by optimizing the science process skill. Even the correlation inferential analysis showed that any change score of science process skill could cause the change of the score of critical thinking skill as much as 0.02 in the same direction. The result of this analysis indicated that there was a relationship between critical thinking skill and science process skill. When the science process skill increased, the critical thinking skill of students also increased. In other words, if the science process skill was optimized in learning process, the critical thinking skill developed too