Abstract
Creativity is one of the important components of success in 21st-century learning. Creativity needs to be developed and taught in the classroom. This study was conducted to know the difference in the effect of blended learning on students' creativity and activeness. This study also aimed to find out the significant improvement on students' creativity and activeness in elementary school. This study is of a quasi-experimental type with a non-equivalent comparison group design. The research subjects were fifth-grade students (32 students as experimental groups and 29 students as a control group) of public elementary schools in Bantul Regency, SDN Kasihan, and SDN Kalipucang, in the academic year 2019/2020. Rubric for Creativity (RC) and Rubric for Activeness (RA) were administered for pretest and posttest. The duration of the experimental learning was three meetings and one meeting for examination. The data analysis technique used independent samples t-tests and paired samples t-tests at the significance level of .05. The results of the study show that there was a significant difference in creativity between the experimental group (applying blended learning) and the control group (applying scientific learning). Experimental group students had higher scores on both variables compared to their counterparts. Thus, it can be concluded that blended learning is effective in improving creativity and activeness of elementary school students.
Highlights
The skills needed in the 21st century is different from those needed in the previous century [1], one of the keys to successful learning in the 21st century being creativity
It can be concluded that the activeness of the students in the experimental class increased higher than that in the control class
After analyzing the effect of blended learning on students’ creativity and activeness, the researchers found that blended learning could create new learning patterns and reduce students’ boredom so that it can improve students’ achievement
Summary
The skills needed in the 21st century is different from those needed in the previous century [1], one of the keys to successful learning in the 21st century being creativity. Students need to be creative and flexible to learn and understand knowledge, so creative thinking is critical for students [2]. Creativity is seen as a construct that needs to be developed and taught in the classroom. This is because creativity is associated with academic achievement, divergent thinking, and self-efficacy [3]. Teachers’ support is needed to find ways and confidence to express their imagination. This is needed to develop students' intellectual capacities and to lead them closer to self-actualization. By including thought processes in all areas of content, teachers can provide the 21st-century life skills in the students’ creative thinking and production [6]
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