Thinking skills for environmental sustainability perspective of new students of biology education department through blended project based learning model

This study aims to analyze the difference of thinking skills between treatment (using blended project based learning model) and control (non treatment) classes. this is quasi-experimental study of new students of biology education as research subject. the thinking skills difference between treatment and control was found out through statistical test of spss. the result shows that there is difference of thinking skills (self-regulated,critical,and creative thinking) between treatment and control classes. the mean of self-regulated thinking of treatment class (16.0) is higher than control group (13.4). meanwhile the mean of critical thinking of treatment class (19.7) is higher than control class (16.7). therefore the mean of creative thinking of treatment class (14.3) is higher than control class (11.8). therefore,it can be concluded that the model of blended project based learning is effective to develop thinking skills of new students of biology departement. © 2015 science education study program fmipa unnes semarang.