Creativity Improvement Research Articles

The Effects of the Design Thinking-Based STEAM Program on Improvement in Creativity of Elementary Schoolers

The Effects of the Design Thinking-Based STEAM Program on Improvement in Creativity of Elementary Schoolers

Pengembangan Perangkat Pembelajaran Fisika Berorientasi Pada Kreativitas Calon Guru

Learning tools are an important part of learning. Innovative learning tools will help lecturers and students achieve the goals in learning. The purpose of this research is to produce an innovative learning tools oriented to the creativity of preservice physics teachers. The type of research is development research, using DDD-E model: decide, design, develop, and evaluate. Instruments used include physics concept test with multiple choice form, essay-type creativity test, activity observation sheet in Likert scale questionnaire. In this study also conducted empirical testing to measure the effectiveness of learning tools which developed to increase student creativity. The results show that the highest creativity improvement of the experimental class on verbal creativity.

Making an impact: The effects of game making on creativity and spatial processing

For decades, researchers have tried to understand how to guide students to both pursue and excel in a career in the fields science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Recently, creativity has been recognized as being important in STEM-based fields and some researchers have even suggested a shift from STEM to STEAM to account for the artistic side of science (Boy, 2013; Henriksen, 2014). Creative capacities augment scientific endeavors given the role these capacities play in problem-solving and innovation. Our work focuses on identifying a method to improve both creativity and spatial abilities, as spatial ability predicts the likelihood to succeed in a STEM field (Wai et al., 2009). Some scientists found that making computer games provides students with an introduction to computer science and technology through an engaging, self-driven platform. While this technique has been successful in sparking interest in STEM careers (Javidi & Sheybani, 2010; Robertson & Howells, 2008), little research has been conducted on how it impacts STEM success. We examined if game-making could lead to cognitive improvement in creativity and spatial abilities in addition to its attitudinal effects. Using a longitudinal, pretest/post-test design, we found that making levels in Portal 2 improved creative and spatial abilities over a control. Participants who made levels also reported being more interested and confident in a variety of STEM-related activities. We conclude that game-making can be used as an engaging way to not only encourage students to pursue, but prepare them to succeed in STEM careers.

The use of an android–based-game in the team assisted individualization to improve students’ creativity and cognitive achievement in chemistry

The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in learning process resulted in positive impact to students’ output. This research investigated the difference of improvement of students’ creativity and cognitive achievement due to the use of android-based games on Chemistry Nomenclature in learning method of team-assisted individualization (TAI) into the improvement of students’ creativity and cognitive achievement. This was an quasi experiment research with non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design involving 2 groups of students of X grade of a senior high school in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, SMAN 1 Seyegan, Sleman. The groups were experiment and control which were chosen randomly, involving 32 students in each group. The difference of learning model in the two groups were the use of android-based games within learning model of TAI in the experiment group, but it was only the use of TAI model in control group. The android-based games were developed and validated previously in this investigation, and were excellent in quality for the use in Chemistry learning process, and were reported separately. The data of both students’ creativity and cognitive achievement were measured before and after learning process. Data of students’ creativity were collected with the instruments of questionnaire and observation sheets, and the data of cognitive achievement were collected with a set of test. Statistical analysis of MANOVA was used to analyze data to measure the difference of the improvement of students’ creativity and cognitive achievement between experiment and control groups. The results showed that the improvement of creativity and cognitive achievement of students in the experiment group was higher significantly than that in control group.

Improving students’ creativity using cooperative learning with virtual media on static fluida concept

Creativity is an important component of global competition in the 21st century. Therefore, learning innovation is needed to make students more creative. This research was conducted to improve students' creativity through cooperative learning using virtual media for the static fluid concept. This study was a quasi-experiment through a pre-test post-test design. The samples were chosen using cluster random sampling technique to obtain two groups, namely experimental group and control group. Data were collected using a creativity test in the form of an essay consisting of verbal and figural tests. The data were analyzed using t-test and N-gain test to determine the improvement of creativity in both groups. The results showed that the improvement of students' creativity in the experimental group was higher than the control group. The difference in the improvement of students’ creativity in both group is significant. Students become more creative especially related to indicators of fluency and elaboration. We conclude that the application of cooperative learning model using virtual media has a positive effect on students’ creativity.

Improving students’ achievement in learning bangun ruang sisi datar by using combination of cooperatif learning approach type of jigsaw and original media items in math subject at the ninth grade students’ in Smp negeri 2 bayang kecamatan bayang

This study departs from the background of the need for renewal in the improvement of teachers' creativity in mathematics learning process management on the material side room flat wake of lower secondary education in response to the weakening of the quality of student learning.In learning activities, the subject matter is not contextual, and low student performance, both in the process and products of learning.Most teachers are still implementing learning with traditional learning approaches.
 The situation is likely to lead to burnout, boredom and lack of interest and motivation of student learning.Based on the description of the above problems, through research is expected the teachers to play a role as an innovator of learning.Increasing teachers' creativity and learning media support the absolute need to be developed.
 This study used a qualitative approach to obtain data and analysis through studies reflective, participatory, and collaborative.Program development based data and information from students, teachers and classes are naturally social setting through the three stages of the cycle of action research.
 In order to improve learning outcomes and learning activities of students in the room woke flat side of classroom action research conducted using a combination of cooperative learning approaches and media jigsaw original object.The research was done in class IX SMP Negeri 2 Shaded by three cycles.In the first cycle, the majority of students not yet accustomed to the conditions jigsaw cooperative learning by using media the original object, so that action by explaining to the students about the principles of cooperative learning jigsaw.
 In the second cycle, students and teachers have started to understand the implementation of cooperative learning jigsaw and showing satisfactory results. From observation result of student activity increase. While the learning outcomes of students geometrical flat side showed an increase from an average of 53 in the first cycle to 79 in the second cycle and 80 cycles third.
 Mastery learning students also showed an increase of 43% in the first cycle to 87% in the second cycle and 90% in the third cycle of the value of a minimum completeness criteria 60. In terms of implementation of action research, the cycle of the first, second, and third it can be concluded that a combination of approaches cooperative learning jigsaw and original objects media to improve learning outcomes wake flat side room and activity of students in class IX students of SMP Negeri 2 Bayang.

UPAYA MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR DAN KREATIVITAS SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN IPS MELALUI MODEL TREFFINGER PADA KELAS V SD MUHAMMADIYAH AMBARKETAWANG 2 TAHUN PELAJARAN 2016/2017

Background research low learning outcomes and creativity of students on subjects IPS class VSD Muhammadiyah Ambarketawang 2. Caused lessons dominated by teachers and less variation oflearning models. The purpose of research: 1) to know the improvement of student learningoutcomes in learning social studies using the model of learning Treffinger on students of class V 2)to know the improvement of student's creativity in learning IPS by using the model of learningTreffinger on students of class V.The type of research is Classroom Action Research (PTK). Implemented in 2 cycles, eachcycle consists of two meetings. Each cycle through 4 stages of planning, implementation,observation and reflection. The subjects of the study were students of class V of 25 students.Techniques of collecting observation, test, and documentation data. Data analysis usingquantitative and descriptive qualitative analysis. The success criteria of action is marked by theincrease of learning result that is 75% of students reach KKM score established by the school thatis 70. The success criteria of action is also seen from the creativity percentage of students that is75% of students included in good criterion (score ≥ 26).The results showed the results of learning and creativity of students in IPS learning using theTreffinger learning model has increased. Completeness of learning outcomes in the pre cycle of 8students (32%), completeness in the cycle 1 to 14 students (56%), and completeness in cycle 2 of 21students (84%). The result of students' creativity in the pre cycle there are 4 students (16%) gotscore ≥ 26, in cycle I there are 12 students (48%), in cycle II there are 20 students (80%). Theresults can be concluded that the Treffinger model can improve student learning outcomes andcreativity in learning IPS class V SD Muhammadiyah Ambarketawang 2.

PENINGKATAN KREATIVITAS ANAK MELALUI METODE BERMAIN MEDIA PLAYDOUGH DI KB MATAHARI KECAMATAN MUARA BADAK KABUPATEN KUTAI KARTANEGARA PADA TAHUN AJARAN 2016/2017

Early age is a good time to lay the foundations of physical, linguistic, emotional, social, self-concept, art, moral and religious values. This study aims to determine the improvement of children's creativity through playdough media play methods in the play group Matahari Kecamatan Muara Badak Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara in the academic year 2016 / 2017. The subject of this study consisted of ten children, five boys and five girls in Group Play Matahari Kecamatan Muara Badak Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara in the academic year 2016 / 2017. The object of research is Child Creativity. This study was conducted two cycles with each stage of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. Data collection techniques used are observation and documentation. Data analysis technique is descriptive analysis of quantitative and qualitative. The results of research in this study the increase percentage average completeness of the achievement of creativity. Child creativity on Pre-action; the child who achieves the indicator Grows Up Expectations and Grows Very Good is 20% to 50% in cycle one and after some improvements in cycle two reaches 80% or eight children out of ten children has achieved Evaluating Growth Indicator and Growing Very Good. The success is done with the steps (1) The teacher always gives motivation to the students to be active and excited either by applause or by singing (2) the teacher gives positive reinforcement to the child (3) the researcher teaches by giving oral praise so the child motivated and felt appreciated. From this research, it can be concluded that the use of Playdough Media Play method can improve children creativity in play group Matahari Kecamatan Muara Badak Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara in 2016/2017 academic year.

Improving The Creativity Of Learning Food Production Through Portfolio Assessment In The Project Learning Model

The implementation of the portfolio assessment in the project learning model is intended to identify the improvement made by the students in the food production learning, and the response given by the students to the implementation of the portfolio assessment in the project learning model. This classroom action research involved 23 students from the study program of food production of Ganesha University of Education during 2014/2015 academic year. The study was conducted in two cycles through the stage in which it was designed, the stage in which it was implemented, the stage in which observation was made, and the stage in which reflection was evaluated. The data were collected using the observation technique in which the learning process and product were observed. The observation sheet of process included preparing, processing, and serving dishes. The observation sheet of products included appearance, texture, aroma and taste aspects through the organoleptic test. The data were descriptively analyzed. The result of the study showed that the learning creativity of food production in cycle 1 averaged 79.15 and could be categorized as good, in cycle 2 the learning creativity averaged 87.08 and could be categorized as very good. This means that the improvement of the learning creativity of food production made by the students through the implementation of the portfolio assessment in the learning project was 7.93. The response given by the students to the implementation of the portfolio assessment in the project learning model could be categorized as good and averaged 81.27.

Improving Students’ Creativity In Writing Recount Text by Using Mind Mapping

This study is conducted to identify the students’ creativity improvement in writingrecount text in which mind-mapping is implemented in the writing class at the tenth grade of SMA Batik 2 Surakarta in the academic year of 2014/2015. By implementing mind-mapping, the students are actively involved in the teaching learning process. With the involvement, the students have more opportunities in conveying their ideas. The opportunities given improve their critical thinking and innovation. The research was conducted from July to December 2014. The method used in this research was classroom action research. There are two cycles conducted. Every research cycle consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. These phases are cyclical so that the researcher can refer back to the first phase after completing the last phase. There are qualitative and quantitative data collected in this research. The qualitative data were collected by observing while the quantitative data were collected by designing tests. The findings showed that the implementation of mind-mapping could improve students’ creativity in writing recount text. The critical thinking (from 57.89% to 86.84%), innovation (from 39.47% to 76.31%), and the learning outcome improved. Based on the improvement, it can be concluded that the result of mindmapping implementation is positive.

INFLUENCE OF FREE DRAWINGS TO IMPROVE CREATIVITY IN 5TH GRADER CHILDREN IN MI MU'AWANAH AL-HASYIMIYAH

Free drawing on children provides a vast opportunity to explore in order to fulfill curiosity. By drawing the child freely express his ideas through fantasy. Safety and freedom are important conditions for the growth of creativity. The objective of the study was to prove the effect of free drawing on the improvement of creativity in 5th grader children in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah. This research design used one group pre-posttest design. The population of this research were all 5th graders in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah as many as 26 children. The sample of this research was all 5th graders in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah as many as 26 children taken with total sampling. Measurement tool used by the questionnaire to assess creativity. Research was on 15th – 27thJuly 2017. Statistic test used Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test. The results showed that all 26 (100%) of respondents had positive creativity and ρcount 0,014 = and a table = 0,05. It meant that there was a free drawing effect on the increase of creativity in 5th grader children in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah. When a child draws, the child will perform activities of crossing out, scratching, and color freely. Thus, able to create various ideas and will give satisfaction for children. New ideas as pieces of creative thinking for children.
 Keywords: child, creativity, free drawing

INFLUENCE OF FREE DRAWINGS TO IMPROVE CREATIVITY IN 5TH GRADER CHILDREN IN MI MU'AWANAH AL-HASYIMIYAH

Free drawing on children provides a vast opportunity to explore in order to fulfill curiosity. By drawing the child freely express his ideas through fantasy. Safety and freedom are important conditions for the growth of creativity. The objective of the study was to prove the effect of free drawing on the improvement of creativity in 5th grader children in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah. This research design used one group pre-posttest design. The population of this research were all 5th graders in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah as many as 26 children. The sample of this research was all 5th graders in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah as many as 26 children taken with total sampling. Measurement tool used by the questionnaire to assess creativity. Research was on 15th – 27thJuly 2017. Statistic test used Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test. The results showed that all 26 (100%) of respondents had positive creativity and ρcount 0,014 = and a table = 0,05. It meant that there was a free drawing effect on the increase of creativity in 5th grader children in MI Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah. When a child draws, the child will perform activities of crossing out, scratching, and color freely. Thus, able to create various ideas and will give satisfaction for children. New ideas as pieces of creative thinking for children.
 Keywords: child, creativity, free drawing

Meta-analysis of the Effects of Gifted-mathematics programs on Creativity Improvement

Meta-analysis of the Effects of Gifted-mathematics programs on Creativity Improvement

Development of Children’s Story Production System for Children Creativity Improvement

Educational programs and systems areas for children around the world have been focused on changing of creativity, autonomy. Moreover, there is a trend in public education, early childhood education changes. Also, the management system is created and maintained for the education of school just before 1 year. Such, early childhood education system is producing many policies for the development of creativity. After all, that creativity will be highlighted throughout the world in early childhood education, and IT technology has been applied as a tool for enhancing creativity. Therefore, in this paper discusses implementing a children’s story production system for children creativity improvement. Existing early childhood education products were limited to a fixed 2D image features provided ways. By constructing a 3D moving image of a character type as one object and by using a 3D simulation that can be easily placed on the screen, direct participation of children can be derived. It offers a variety of editing functions, such as size and operation of the 3D deformation. Children can express their ideas through the features. Finally, the contents of the core development technology in the thesis are the 3D modeling simulator. For this purpose, we apply the 3D modeling data to the storybook template contents using the data information processed by the 3D modeling data. As a result, a method of inputting data check sheet information for each character has been developed into a 3D modeling data simulator and executing method.

Learning under time pressure: Learners who think positively achieve superior learning outcomes from creative teaching methods using picture books

This study aimed to verify the effectiveness of creative thinking-based teaching using picture books in elementary schools, and investigated the effects of positive emotions and time pressure on learners in a creative thinking-based teaching environment. A quasi pretest–posttest experimental design was employed for this study. The findings indicate that through the educational material set “E.T. Thinker,” an appropriate level of time pressure is exerted on learners, triggering positive emotions and improvements in creativity and imagination on the posttest relative to the pretest. The findings of this study illustrate that the positive effects engendered by positive emotions and time pressure can enhance the effectiveness of creative teaching for both the teacher and learners.

HIERARCHY OF WORK MOTIVES AND MOTIVATORS WITH THE AIM OF FORMING MORE EFFICIENT WORKING ENVIRONMENT

The motivation influences the improvement of work efficiency and creativity, improvement of working life quality and successfulness of a company. In order to dobusiness successfully, every organization should take care of its employees’ needs. Satisfying the needs is one of the most important influences on motivation. The aim of this research is to determine the order of satisfying the needs which are the most significant as far as the employees’ motivation is concerned, and to determine whether the connection among the length of years of service, gender, age, professional qualifications and hierarchy of needs exists. This research is a part of a wider research whose aim has been to form more pleasant, safer and more efficient working environment and conditions. The research was conducted in 2014 and 2015 in the company Port of Adria AD Bar. A specially constructed questionnaire for this purpose was being used. Interviewing was performed on 184 employees. As it was expected, the obtained results showed that salary was the biggest motivator for them.

Peningkatan Kreativitas, Efektivitas, dan Minat Siswa dalam Pembelajaran Menulis Naskah Drama dengan Model Pembelajaran Berbasis Masalah

This article describes the improvement of students' creativity in learning to write drama script with Problem-Based Learning model (PBM). The research method used is Classroom Action Research. The results showed that students 'creativity, learning effectiveness, and students' interest experienced improvement in each cycle. The average value of student creativity cycle I 75,95, cycle II 86,59, and at cycle III 95,45. Based on the KKM determined that 75, cycles I, 19 students (43.18%) is not complete and 25 students (56.82%) thorough, cycle II, 36 students (81.82%) complete and 8 students (18.18%) is incomplete, and cycle III of all students is complete. Then, the effectiveness of learning also increases. The average value of teacher activity cycle I 2.05 (enough), cycle II 3.27 (good), and in cycle III 3.82 (very good). The average value of student activity in cycle I 2.05 (enough), on cycle II 3 (good), and on cycle III 3.68 (very good). In addition, student interest in learning also increased. The average score of student interest in cycle I 78.92 began to grow (MB), the average value of student interest questionnaire in cycle II 85.91 MB, and the average value of student interest questionnaire in cycle III 92.39 with the information already entrust (SM). Keywords: Writing drama script, creativity, effectiveness, interest.

Remixing Creativity in Learning and Learning of Creativity: A Case Study of Audio Remix Practice with Undergraduate Students

Testing creativity in tertiary learning activities is a young field of research, and current assessment methods are difficult to apply within the diverse context of media production education, where disciplines range from journalism through to video game production. However, the concept of remix is common across this wide range of media, and offers practitioners ‘endless hybridizations in language, genre, content, technique and the like’ (Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, p. 22). The conceptual commonality of remix indicates that the study conclusions will have useful implications across a range of media production disciplines. This study aims to consider new methods for testing creativity in media production learning activities and to provide better assessments for learning design. This study focused upon a learner cohort of music technology students that were undertaking a work-integrated learning programme with a record label. To make the students more work-ready and inspire greater creativity, they remixed tracks recorded by professional music artists as part of a unit assessment. Subsequent self-report surveys ( N = 29) found that the process of creating a ‘remix’ enhanced their creativity and provided suggested improvements to the design of the learning experience. Importantly, we found no relationship between the survey responses and objective assessments, indicating that the self-reported improvements in creativity were not simply a measure of how well the students performed the formally assessed tasks. Although more research is needed to establish effective measures of creativity, these findings demonstrate that self-report survey tools can be a powerful tool for measuring creativity and supporting improved iterative learning design.

"We Will Show the Country": Bringing History to Life

"We Will Show the Country": Bringing History to Life

Explorative learning strategy and its impact on creativity and innovation

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the structural relationships among explorative learning strategy, improvisational creativity, compositional creativity, and innovation in information and communication technology small- and medium-sized enterprises (ICT-SMEs).Design/methodology/approachIn total, 213 valid questionnaires from SMEs’ top management positions were evaluated to investigate the proposed model of the research empirically. As a methodological approach, partial least square (PLS) path modeling approach, a variance-based structural equation modeling was employed.FindingsThe statistical results imply that explorative learning has a positive impact on improvisational creativity and innovation while improvisational creativity has a positive influence on compositional creativity and innovation as well. Compositional creativity and innovation are also positively associated. Surprisingly, improvisational creativity mediates the relationship between explorative learning and innovation. Furthermore, PLS-multi group analysis reveals that heterogeneity exists in the collected data and number of employees is a moderating variable. The results of the research indicate that companies with number of employees between 51 and 100 are more creative and innovative in comparison with other groups. On the other hand, the positive relationship between explorative learning and compositional creativity was not supported in this research.Originality/valueThis study is one of the few research works in the realm of examining the structural relationship among explorative learning strategy, improvisational creativity, compositional creativity, and innovation in ICT-SMEs, regarding the number of employees as a moderating variable.