PENGARUH FASILITAS BELAJAR, DUKUNGAN ORANG TUA, DAN KREATIVITAS GURU DALAM MENGAJAR TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN EKONOMI KELAS X SMA NEGERI 1 CIKEUSAL PROVINSI BANTEN

Abstract

Critical thinking skills are high-level thinking abities that are essential for students to solve problems through analysis, synthesis, evalution, and drawing conclusions. This study aims to analyze the influence of learning facilities, parental support, and teacher creativity in teaching on students’ critical thunking skkills in economics at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Cikeusal, Banten Provice. This reseacrh employs a quantitative approach with a causal design, involving 240 students as the population and 150 respondents as the sample. Data were collected through a questionaire that was tested for validity and reliability, and analyzed using depcriptive analysis and multipe linear regression. The results indicate that learning facilities, perental support, and teacher creativity in teaching are all in the high category and have a positive and significant impact on students; critical thinking skills. Overall, these three variabls influence students’ critical thinking skills by 39%, while 61% is influenced by other factors not examined in this study. Based on these findings, it is recomended to improve the quality of learning facilities, strengthen parental suppot in vacious forms, and enhance teacher creativity in teaching to encourge the development of students’ critical thinking skills.