The influence of scientific creativity and critical worksheets (SCCW) on creative thinking skills and critical scientific as well as students’ cognitive abilities on project-based learning work and energy concepts

Abstract

This study describes the influence of scientific creativity and critical worksheet (SCCW) to the creative thinking and scientific critical as well as students’ cognitive ability of Work and Energy concept. The aim of this study was to find out the improvement of cognitive ability, creative thinking skill and critically scientific students with applied model of project-based learning integrated with SCCW and conventional student worksheet (CSW). This study is based on one of the 21st Century Partnership Learning Framework which contains the skills that must be possessed by learners in the 21st century, which is focused on scientific creative thinking skills and critical scientific thinking skills. The research method used is pre-experimental research with randomized control group pretest-postest design. Implementation of SCCW on project-based learning can improve creative thinking skills and critical scientific and cognitive abilities of students with greater improvement than the application of SCW on project-based learning.