Correlation between Knowledge, Experience and Common Sense, with Critical Thinking Capability of Medical Faculty’s Students at Indonesia Christian University

Abstract

This research discusses correlation between knowledge, experience and common sense with critical thinking of Medical Faculty’s Student. As to the objective of this research is to find the correlation between knowledge, experience and common sense with critical thinking of Medical Faculty’s Students at Christian University of Indonesia. It is conducted in Christian University of Indonesia at Medical Faculty precisely, which of 72 students had been elected as research from total population of 250 students who actively attend Medical Educational Program of 2011/2012. Random sampling technique is the the applied one, it is questionnaire comprising 34 questions. The Data analyzed by Skewness and Kurtosis test. Research finding had obtained that knowledge, experience and common sense has positive correlation with critical thinking of students. As to correlational coefficient between variable X1, X2 and X3 to Y is 0.234. Hence, it may be concluded that to increase critical thinking capability of students then, knowledge, experience and common sense should be increased as well.

Keywords: Knowledge, experience and common sense, critical thinking capability, correlation.