Implementation of the Inquiry Model on the Critical Thinking Ability of Prospective Physical Education Teachers in Football Learning

Currently, football needs to be supported by critical thinking skills to produce a focused and efficient game. This research aims to implement an inquiry learning model on students' critical thinking skills in football learning materials. The football learning material includes maintaining control, striking, and shooting the ball. The method utilized was an experiment with The Randomized Posttest-Only Control Group Design. The total sample was 70 students divided into two groups: the experimental group of 35 was assigned inquiry model treatment, and the control group of 35 was assigned conventional model treatment. The instrument for measuring critical thinking skills operates an observation sheet whoselevel of validity has been tested. The research results reveal that students' critical thinking skills for the inquiry models are an extremely good category, and conventional models in maintaining ball control are a good category. Students' critical thinking skills for the inquiry model for striking are in the extremely good category, while for the conventional model for striking are in the good category. Students' critical thinking skills for the inquiry model in the aspect of shooting are in the extremely good category, while for the conventional model in the shooting aspect are in the good category.