Profile of Students’ Creative Thinking Skills in Science Learning

Abstract

Creative thinking skill is one of the 21st-century skills or also known as 4C that students must have. Creative thinking skill is useful as a source of encouragement, drive, and strength in development, research, and investigation to deal with the industrial revolution 4.0. This study aimed to determine the profile of junior high schools students' creative thinking skills in learning science. Science is one of the subjects that require creative thinking skills. The method used in this study is descriptive analysis. Data were collected through a test, observation sheets, and interviews. Subjects in the study were 126 students from four different junior high schools. The results of this study show that showed students who have high score are amount to 22 people, medium thinking ability level of 46 people and a low level of creative thinking skills of 58 people and the percentage of each indicator on creative thinking from test were thinking fluently is 82%, thinking originally is 38%, thinking flexibly is 61% and thinking of elaboration is 55% while on observation sheets were thinking fluently is 71%, thinking originally is 40%, thinking flexibly is 63% and thinking of elaboration is 59%.

Profile of Students’ Critical and Creative Thinking Skills

“…Efforts to overcome students' low creative thinking skills are by trying to improve it in various ways [50]. The examples are developing interactive e-books [52], developing worksheets that are integrated with innovative learning models [53], integrating creative and innovative learning approaches and learning models [54].…”

“…Based on the results of interviews with science teachers at Madrasah Tsanawiyah in Majalengka, the factors causing students' poor critical and creative thinking skills include the ability of previous students' learning outcomes, which were on less to moderate category. The findings of Siburian et al [57], Miharja et al [58], and Safitri et al [59] state that there is a correlation between student learning outcomes and critical and creative thinking skills. The higher the student's cognitive results are directly proportional to the higher the student's critical or creative thinking skills.…”

Analysis of momentum and impulse on students’ creative thinking skill through project based learning integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)

“…It may be difficult for students to present data that is different from before or that shows aspects of novelty or originality. The most important characteristic in originality is different from the others or previously existed [15].…”

Kemampuan Berpikir Kreatif Mahasiswa Pendidikan Matematika dalam Memecahkan Masalah Open-Ended Trigonometri

“…Kemampuan berpikir kreatif dirasa penting karena dapat membantu mahasiswa untuk melihat atau menganalisis suatu masalah dari sudut pandang baru atau sudut pandang lainnya. Asumsi ini didukung oleh pernyataan dari Madyani et al (2020), keterampilan berpikir kreatif adalah salah satu dari keterampilan abad 21 yang patut dimiliki, sebab hal ini berguna untuk menyongsong revolusi industri 4.0. Revolusi Industri 4.0 ditandai atas berkembangnya ilmu pengetahuan serta teknologi yang sangat cepat dan signifikan.…”