Abstract
Profile of students’ creative thinking and conceptual understanding is essential to create an initial description of students’ competencies in overcoming their learning difficulties. The research aims to describe profile of concept understanding and creative thinking skills of 7thgrade students of all SMP Negeri (public junior high school) in Rasau Jaya sub-district, Kubu Raya Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia in photosynthesis content. The research uses qualitative descriptive method. The sampling technique employs disproportionate stratified random sampling. Samples consist of 143 students of 7th grade from three SMP Negeri in Rasau Jaya Sub-district, Kuburaya Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The data collection technique utilizes creative thinking skill test in the form of an essay with fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration aspects. Students’ concept understanding test is in the form of four-tier diagnostic test. Data analysis employs descriptive statistics with percentage of creative thinking and conceptual understanding in categories of understanding, partial understanding, misconception, and not understanding. The creative thinking skill percentage of SMPN students in Rasau Jaya, Indonesia in the originality and flexibility aspect is in a fairly creative category, whereas in the elaboration and fluency aspect the category is still less creative. The highest percentage of students’ conceptual understanding is misconception of 45.25% and followed by an understanding of 30.64%, not understand of 13.2%, and partial understanding of 10.97%. The obtained data give evidence that natural sciences (IPA) learning knowledge among junior high school students, especially concept understanding and creative thinking, is still low. Therefore, teachers could develop students’ creative thinking skills so their concept understanding could be improved.
Highlights
Current education sector have a task of improving human resource quality (Widiana & Jampel, 2016)
Research Design The research type used was descriptive research. It used quantitative approach, which is descriptively describing an event that becomes a center of attention and based on quantitative data (Yuliani, Dharmono, Naparin, & Zaini, 2018). It illustrated the result of creative thinking skills and concept understanding test given to students of grade VII in IPA learning, especially photosynthesis content in all SMP in Rasau Jaya Sub-district for academic year of 2019/2020
An answer and reason chosen by students; they could look deeper for their conceptual understanding strength, (2) diagnose misunderstanding experienced by students, (3) determine parts of content that requires more emphasizes, and (4) plan better learning to assist in reducing students’ misunderstanding (Irsanti, Khaldun, & Hanum, 2017; Fariyani, Rusilowati, & Sugianto, 2015)
Summary
Current education sector have a task of improving human resource quality (Widiana & Jampel, 2016). Quality education equips students with thinking skills (Zubaidah, Fuad, Mahanal,& Suarsini, 2017). One of mostly-trained student skills to achieve the goals of 21st century education is creative thinking skills (Moon, 2008). Logical, and creative thinking skills have a correlation to cognitive skills and assist students to acquire more understanding on concept being studied (Koray & Koksal, 2009). Creative thinking skills aim to synthesize ideas, produce new ideas, and determine the effectiveness of the existing ideas (Sumarni & Kadarwati, 2020; Zubaidah, Fuad, Mahanal, & Suarsini, 2017). Creative thinking is helpful in determining new solution for unpredicted difficulties or problems (Ulger, 2014). Creative thinking skill is a basic of science (Hadzigeorgiou1, 2012). It must be trained through learning, especially in science learning (Zubaidah, Fuad, Mahanal, & Suarsini, 2017)
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