ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kreatif dan mengetahui kemampuan berpikir kreatif mahasiswa melalui pembelajaran berbasis proyek pada perkuliahan mikrobiologi. Penelitian difokuskan pada kegiatan merancang proyek pada topik fermentasi. Penelitian dilakukan di sebuah perguruan tinggi di Lombok terhadap mahasiswa pendidikan biologi semester V (n=34 orang). Data dikumpulkan menggunakan tes berpikir kreatif dengan cara mengisi komponen-komponen rancangan yang meliputi permasalahan, solusi-solusi alternatif, tujuan dan cara kerja. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan berpikir kreatif mahasiswa dalam menjawab soal-soal yang diberikan dengan Ngain sebesar 0,52. Kemampuan berpikir kreatif mahasiswa sebagian besar (50%) dikategorikan ke dalam kategori sedang, sebagian kecil kategori rendah (23,5%) dan tinggi (26,5%). Kata kunci: pembelajaran berbasis proyek, berpikir kreatif, mikrobiologi ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to increases creative thinking skill and to know creative thinking ability of prospective biology teachers" through project based learning at microbiology. This research was focused on creative thinking in designing activity process on fermentation topic. The study involved a number of prospective teachers of the fif th semester from a university in Lombok (n=34). Data was collected using creative thinking test by filling the designing components (included problem, solutions, purpose and procedure). The study resulted in that there was increasing of creative thinking of biology prospective teachers with N gain 0,52. The creative thinking ability of prospective biology teachers could be categorized into low (23,5%), medium (50%), and high (26,5%) categories.

The learning process has characteristics that reflect scientific, thematic, collaborative, and student-centered. This type of learning usually uses constructivist learning, and one of them is Inquiry. The inquiry is a process to get information by conducting observations or experiments to find answers or solve problems for questions or formulation a problem by using logical and critical thinking skills. This preliminary study focused on investigating new prospective teachers’ inquiry ability. The respondents were new prospective teachers of Hamzanwadi University. The research instrument was a student worksheet with the topic “photosynthesis.” Data analysis used descriptive statistical methods by calculating the score of each indicator of Inquiry after three assessments. Using of amount score to shows that for each indicator: (1) problem formulation (66), (2) Hypothesis (50), (3) Design (40), (4) Findings (12), and (5) Conclusions (10). It can be concluded that the new prospective teachers’ in their involvement still needed to be trained, guidance, and continues to be developed. Therefore, Inquiry-based learning needs an extension for their next learning.

Creative thinking is identified with the thinking process which includes fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. This creative thinking habit can be trained by applying a creative problem-solving model, namely learning creative problem solving, this model is one of constructivist learning. The research focus is applying creative problem solving-based learning to students' creative thinking. Participants are students of SMA Negeri 1 Masbagik for the 2019/2020 academic year class X Science. Quasi-experimental research design with post-test-only control design. Collecting data using a description test. Data analysis by t-test and using SPSS 25.0 program application for its calculations. The results of data analysis: 1) the experimental class obtained a significant average value on the indicators of creative thinking fluency (78.00), flexibility (77.00), originality (54.73), 2) fluency control class (60.18), flexibility (55.48), originality (50.18). The conclusion of this research is that creative problem-solving learning has an impact on students' creative thinking in all indicators with an increasing average value in the experimental class

The science process is related to cognitive development, because it needs to be applied in the skills learning process to support students' mastery of science concepts which can provide better learning outcomes. The focus of this research is to develop a worksheet based on science process skills on biology content for the first grade of high school. Research design is research and development which consists of define, design and develop. The participants for this preliminary field testing were twelve second grade high school students at I.T Dhia'ul Fikri Sukarara, East Lombok. Collecting data using worksheets with refers to of science process skills indicators consisting of observation, classification, prediction, communication, and inference. The results of preliminary field testing were analyzed descriptively quantitatively by giving a score of 3, 2, and 1 for each of science process skills indicators, then percentage based on the low, medium, and high categories. The results of the analysis showed that of the seven biology content tested in the limited trial of developing worksheets, the results obtained were for the low category the highest percentage of content in the biogeochemical cycle for all science process skills indicators. The medium category has the highest percentage of inference indicators for environmental balance, environmental change, environmental pollution, and environmental management. High category on environmental balance content; the highest percentage with indicators of observation, classification, prediction, and communication., environmental changes on indicators of observation, classification, prediction, and communication., pollution indicators of observation, prediction, and communication. The conclusion based on results of this preliminary field testing is that students are able to demonstrate science process skills using worksheets with various categories, and from the seven biology content tested, the biogeochemical cycle is considered the most difficult by students

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