Critical thinking skills to physical education: the influence of learning models and gender

The objective of this research is to determine the influence of the learning model on critical thinking skills from a gender based perspective. Thisis a quasi-experiment research comprising of Nonequivalent Control Group Design with data collected from 68 class X high school students at SMA N 1 Benai using questionnaires and analyzed using the independent samples test. The result showed that there was a significant influence between Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and the deep Discovery Learning (DL) models with increased critical thinking skills of 0.000. Furthermore, PBL is good in increasing students critical thinking skills compared to DL where the female students perform better at developing these skills than the male. Keywords: PBL, DL, Critical Thinking, Physical Education, Gender.