Abstract
The objective of the present research is to study students’ achievement in creative thinking ability and to determine the level of their ability in creative thinking in electrochemistry through open-ended problems model. The method used in this research is Descriptive Study. The sample of this research is 12 th grade students majoring in Science of SMAN 3 South Tangerang which consist of 28 students. The sample taken are students of 12 th grade majoring in science from selected classes; they have higher scores in daily test compared to 4 other classes. This was simply for convenience of studying the learning process and the implementation of open-ended model problem in this study. The data of this research was acquired from observation sheet, test and interview. In this research the achievement of student’s creative thinking ability was focused on three aspects of creative thinking: fluency, flexibility and originality. The result showed that student’s achievement on fluency was good, flexibility was average and originality was average. Meanwhile, the open-ended test result showed that student’s achievement on fluency was good, flexibility was average and originality was also average. Level of student’s ability in creative thinking was categorized as very poor, poor and average. Number of students in each category was 10 students (35.71%) in very poor category, 17 students (60.71%) in poor category, and 1 student (3.57%) in average category.
Highlights
The 2013 curriculum is a studentcentered curriculum which demand an active involvement in learning process
The sample of this research is 12th grade students majoring in Science of SMAN 3 South Tangerang which consist of 28 students
The mindset in 2013 curriculum is to generate creative Indonesian society (Yani, 2014). This is correspond to the goal of 2013 curriculum as set-forth in the Regulation of Ministry of Education and Cultural no.69/2013, i.e. preparing Indonesian so as to possess life skills as individual and citizen who is faithful, productive, creative, innovative and affective as well as capable to contribute to the society, nation, country and world civilization (Republic of Indonesia, 2013)
Summary
The 2013 curriculum is a studentcentered curriculum which demand an active involvement in learning process. The material taught in electrochemistry class is deemed appropriate to be utilized in analyzing student’s thinking ability by open-ended problems model there by they are able to solve problems related to electrochemistry in daily life. Observation sheet used in this research serves as a mean to observe the process or the student’s activity in completing the open-ended set of problems which in turn related to the aspect of creative thinking. In order to measure the student’s level of creative thinking, researcher analyzed the occurence of the three aspects of student’s creative thinking in each open-ended problem set completed by the students based on their level of creative thinking ability according to Siswono’s (Siswono, 2011). Percentage data were interpreted into categories according to Riduwan’s as previously discussed (Riduwan, 2010)
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