Kepraktisan Handout tentang Gizi dalam Melatihkan Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis Mahasiswa Pendidikan Biologi Banjarmasin

A teaching material in learning will influence whether or not the information is complete and on target, as well as influencing the final results of the learning process. In critical thinking skills, students are expected to be able to find alternative solutions to problems. An effort that can be used to overcome this problem is by making practical Handout s to train critical thinking skills. This research aims to analyze the practicality of Handout s on Nutrition to train students' critical thinking skills. The research subjects were: The subjects of this research consisted of 25 undergraduate students in Biology Education, FKIP, Lambung Mangkurat University, participants in nutrition and nutrition courses. The data analysis technique carried out is practicality obtained based on the value of the responses students in the implementation of Handout use by observers. The research results show that the expected and actual practicality of the Handout is 97.14% and 85.29% respectively with the criteria of strongly agree. the implementation of the expectations got an average score of 81.48% and the actual score was 85.19%, both of which got very good criteria. Based on this data, the average N-Gain value in the field test (actual) was 0.7, which is in the medium criteria. Based on the research results above, it can be concluded that the Handout developed is very practical in training students' critical thinking skills.