Improving Critical Thinking Skills and Indonesian Language Learning Outcomes through Technology-Integrated Deep Learning among Third-Grade Students at SDN 143 Inpres Leko

Peningkatan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis dan Hasil Belajar Bahasa Indonesia Melalui Pembelajaran Mendalam Terintegrasi Teknologi pada Siswa Kelas III SDN 143 Inpres Leko

Abstract

This study examined how students' critical thinking and Indonesian language learning outcomes changed after a technology-supported deep learning approach was applied in a third-grade class at SDN 143 Inpres Leko. The research followed a pre-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design involving all 30 students of the class (saturated sampling). Critical thinking and learning outcome tests were given before and after the treatment, and the resulting data were processed with descriptive statistics, a Shapiro-Wilk normality test on the gain scores, a paired sample t-test, Cohen's d, and the N-Gain procedure. The average critical thinking score rose from 36.00 to 80.50, while the average learning outcome score rose from 37.83 to 82.00. The paired sample t-test produced a significance value of 0.000 (p < 0.05), and the N-Gain values of both variables were classified as high. In short, students' critical thinking and Indonesian language learning outcomes increased significantly after the technology-supported deep learning approach was implemented. Because no control group was involved, however, the increase cannot yet be attributed solely to the treatment.