Development of Interactive Learning Media Based on Open Ended Problem Approach Assisted by Visual Basic with Excel to Improve Creative Thinking Ability and Resilience of Students at Al Manar Private Junior High School

Abstract

This study aims to: (1) describe the validity, practicality and effectiveness of developing interactive learning media based on an open ended problem approach assisted by visual basic with excel to improve students' creative thinking skills and resilience at Al Manar Private Junior High School; (2) Describe the improvement of creative thinking skills and resilience of students in learning media based on an open-ended problem-assisted visual basic approach that was developed; (3) Describe the increase in students' mathematical resilience who is taught using visual basic media with excel which has been developed using an open ended problem approach. The type of research used in this research is Developmental Research. The development model used is the formative evaluation type Tessmer development model. The subjects in this study were all students of the Al Manar Private Junior High School for the academic year 2021/2022, but the test subjects were only taken for class VII-A (25 students) for trial I and class VII-B (25 students) for trial II. The results showed that: (1) open-ended problem-based mathematics learning media assisted by visual basic with excel were included in the categories of validity, practicality, and effectiveness. (2) Based on the results of the analysis of the creative thinking ability test in trials I and I1 showed that students' creative thinking abilities increased. This increase in creative thinking skills can be seen from the average creative thinking ability test results obtained by students. In the first trial, students' creative thinking ability increased from 63.40 to 75.80 with moderate N-Gain criteria. (3) Students' mathematical resilience changes after learning by using visual basic assisted learning media. Keywords: creative thinking skills, resilience, open ended problem approach, visual basic DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-16-08 Publication date: June 30 th 2022