Teaching Duet in Social Sciences Education in Promoting Critical Thinking Abilities
The purpose of this research is to identify the effects of teaching duet among social sciences students on the frequency of the critical thinking abilities used. This research are conducted in order to employ the current tools of conventional methods with integration of group activities
and learning video in order to deliver the teaching and learning content. There are only selected topics from the subjects content are taking part in this teaching duet approach. This research is conducted using quasi experimental design involving 45 students in one of the universities in
Malaysia. The research focuses on the frequency of critical thinking abilities used while answering the assessment test after the teaching duet occur according to Ennis's critical thinking abilities. By using thematic analysis, the researcher has analyzed and categorized the answers and compared
them with the Ennis's critical thinking abilities. Among 12 abilities contain in Ennis, there are 10 abilities were obtain at the end of the research for the treatment group while there are 7 abilities contains in control group. This result suggest that the teaching duet approach have a potential
in promoting the students to use more critical thinking abilities compare to conventional learning method.
Keywords: Critical Thinking; Teaching Duet; Video Learning
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, 81310, Malaysia
Publication date: 01 October 2015
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