THE DIFFERENCES OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODELS TO INFLUENCE OF CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY IN STUDENT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SUBJECT 3RD SEMESTER OF DIII NURSING STUDY PROGRAM

Abstract

Maximum academic competition needs to have critical thinking skills. It was influenced by the learning methods applied by the teaching lecturer. Learning of Medical Nursing learning requires cognitive, affective, and psychomotor abilities. Learning methods that were appropriate and easily accepted by students such as project-based methods learning and cooperative learning provide learning experiences in the classroom to think more critically and have a high ability to master the concepts and cause motivation to learn. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in the effect of Project-Based Learning methods with Cooperative Learning on motivation and Critical Thinking Skills in the subject of Surgical Medical Nursing. The study design used true experimental with Randomized control trial approach, namely pretest group design and post-test only control design. The source population in this study was the student D III Nursing Study program of STIKES BINA SEHAT PPNI Mojokerto Semester III. The sample in this study was the third- semester students, Nursing Diploma Program, as many as 78 students. The data collection techniques of this research were written tests and questionnaire tests. Data analysis was performed with the data normality test with the Kolmogorov Smirnov test, and the results were all data were normally distributed so that the data analysis used different tests, namely Mann Whitney, as well as to determine differences in the effect of each class using the Wilcoxon test. The results showed the Asymp.Sig (2tailed) < 0.05, which is 0.000, which means that there are differences in critical thinking skills between classes that use the project-based learning model and the Cooperative Learning model after receiving treatment. Project Based Learning Method guides students through a problem that is solved by a project so that the ability to think in students is more increased