CRITICAL THINKING SKILL And Its CORRELATION WITH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT INDEX CUMULATIVE

This study aims to know is there any correlation between the critical thinking skills of students with a cumulative achievement index gained. Research conducted on students of biology education class in 2014, as many as 55 people. Instruments to measure critical thinking skills such as essay questions with the topic of cell biology. Critical thinking skills obtained in this study is the average of the three aspects, namely the interpretation, analysis, and explanation. Student cumulative achievement index is obtained from the documentation in education courses in Biology. The data were then analyzed with Pearson correlation. Results of data analysis obtained 0,800 significance values greater than 0.05 α value. This means that there is no significant correlation between cumulative achievement index gained student of biology education class in 2014 with the critical thinking skils Key word: Critical thinking, cumulative achievement index, correlation, evaluation, critical thinking aspects