ABSTRACT
Ahsan
Sofyan, 2012. THE
IMPACT OF OPEN-ENDED LEARNING
METHOD TOWARDS STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES (Quasi Eksperiment on
Seventh Grade Students in SMP Negeri 11 Makassar). Thesis Faculty of
Social Science Education. Indonesia University of Education.
Learning
situation and process there made in order
to develop student’s potential; it means that learning process must be oriented
to the students (student active learning). Education’s task is developing
student’s self potential, not feeding through the learning’s material or
forcing students to memorize the data and fact. In this case, the more
innovative learning is needed. One of the systems which is expected can be
increased the students ability of particular thinking is applying the Open-ended approach. Open-ended...