Representation of Student’s Creative Thinking Skills: Case Studies on Basic Biology Course

Abstract

Creative thinking skills are one of the life skills needed in the 21st century that can be empowered by learning process. These skills can be a provision for students to solve various problems. The aim of the research to know representation of student’s creative thinking skills in Basic Biology course. Representation is the process by which an object is captured by a person’s senses, then it makes sense to process that the result is a concept / idea with language will be conveyed / expressed again. So this research seeks to uncover the extent of student representation in creative thinking skills especially to find solutions to problems that arise and compile a mini research in accordance with the scientific method. Subjects were student’s of Biology education PGRI Semarang University who take Basic Biology courses in academic year 2019/2020. Data collecting technique of the research was done analysis result of practicum report of Basic Biology course to measured students creative thinking skills. Analysis data technique used descriptive analysis technique. The result showed that the representation of students’ creative thinking skills is included in the enough category. The results of students’ creative thinking skills for each indicator can be obtained that students have flexibility, elaboration, and fluency in good category. Meanwhile, the original thinking skills of most students is still in the lacking category.