The potential of students’ creative disposition as a perspective to develop creative teaching and learning for senior high school biological science

Abstract

This research aims to identify the potentials of students’ creative disposition and the perceived position of their creative disposition in biology learning. Research participants were 72 senior high school students in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. Data were collected through questionnaires. The participants were required to complete a closed questionnaire as self-report responses to statements about creative dispositions and position of students’ creative dispositions as compared to their peers’. The resulting data were processed qualitatively to determine the categories of creative characteristics and quantitatively t test was used to analysis the effect of creative disposition on students’ position of creative disposition. The results showed that students have high category, average and low level creative disposition. The position of the students’ creative disposition is influenced by their creative disposition. The male student group shows more creative characters in the persistent domain than in the inquisitive, imaginative, collaborative, and disciplined domains; meanwhile, the female student group exhibits more collaborative character. The student creative disposition importance as base for creative instructional development design.