SIKAP TERHADAP KEMAHIRAN PEMIKIRAN KRITIKAL DAN HUBUNGANNYA DENGAN PRESTASI AKADEMIK DALAM KALANGAN PELAJAR-PELAJAR UKM (THE ATTITUDE OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG UKM STUDENTS)

Ili Atiqah Mddin, Ruslin Bin Amir

Abstract


Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti pola sikap pemikiran kritis dalam kalangan mahasiswa Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Seramai 200 orang mahasiswa UKM terlibat dalam kajian ini. Responden kajian yang terlibat dalam kajian terdiri daripada pelajar-pelajar tahun satu ijazah sarjana muda sehingga pelajar doktor falsafah UKM. Instrumen kajian yang digunakan untuk mengukur kajian berkaitan dengan Sikap Kemahiran Pemikiran Kritis ini ialah California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) iaitu terdiri daripada sikap-sikap pengadilan, sikap keterbukaan, sikap menghadapi cabaran, sikap objektiviti, sikap rasa ingin tahu, sikap sistematik, sikap analitik, sikap kematangan kognitif dan sikap ingin mencari kebenaran. Kajian adalah berbentuk kuantitatif menggunakan soal selidik. Kajian ini dianalisis menggunakan analisis ujian t, ujian korelasi, ujian regresi dan ujian Kruskaal Wallis. Keputusan menunjukkan bahawa sikap-sikap pemikiran kritis yang paling dominan dalam kalangan mahasiswa UKM adalah sikap rasa ingin tahu. Selain itu, sikap pemikiran kritis mempunyai hubungan yang tidak signifikan pencapaian akademik mahasiswa di UKM. Justeru kajian yang lebih komprehensif dan meluas perlu dijalankan terutamanya yang melibatkan pemikiran kritis dalam kalangan pelajar universiti, matrikulasi mahupun pra universiti di Malaysia agar dapat membantu dalam mempercepatkan pembinaan modal insan kelas pertama yang berteraskan high order thinking menjelang Wawasan 2020.

Kata kunci: Sikap pemikiran kritis, pencapaian akademik mahasiswa

The study investigated the behaviours of critical thinking skills among UKM students. This study involved 200 UKM students as research participants. Respondents were from Bachelor students (Year 1 to Year 4), and Master students. The location of this study is in Bangi Campus, UKM that includes seven faculties. Those are Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Islamic Study, Faculty of Management and Economics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Faculty of Science and Information Technology and Faculty of Engineering. The students’ age range is between 19 to 46 years old. The instrument used to measure the attitude of critical thinking skills is California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), that was translated by the researcher into Malay language. In addition, this research also employed descriptive and inference statistics analyses in the form of mean score, standard deviation, percentage, frequency, Pearson Correlation, non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis and T-Test. The result showed that the behaviour of critical thinking skills was not related significantly with UKM students’ academic performances. Cognitive maturity behaviour influenced their academic levels from low and moderate to high performance. Finally, male and female students also differ in their open-mindedness, objectivity, readiness to face challenges and desire to seek the truth.
Keywords: critical thinking skills, academic performances


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