CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS PROFILE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ON SCIENCE LEARNING
Rahmania Firda1, Ida Kaniwati2, Windy Kasmita3, Yeni Setyowati4, Nanda Syah Putra5

1,3,4,5, Sekolah Pascasarjana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung
2,Dosen Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung
e-mail: firda.rahmani4[at]upi.edu

Abstract

Creative thinking is one of the 21st century skills which described as the key to education because the abilities can produce new, suprising, and valuable ideas. This research aimed to know the profil of student^s creative thinking skills in VII grade of junior high school in Surabaya during the processs of science learning. The study was conducted on 116 participant. This study used quantitative-descriptive method. Data collection were done by using open ended test on Education for Sustainability Development context based on creative thinking skills indicator. The test was validated by learning evaluation expert. Indicator of creative thinking skills test is fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. The result shows that ability creative thinking of students in the concept of enviromental pollution is 18% of student have low creative thinking skills, 70% of them have moderate category, and 12% of them have high category. Then, average score based on indicatore of creative thinking skills is fluency (69%), flexibility (57%), originality (55%), and elaboration (59%). The conclusion of this research is average score of originality gets the lowest from other indicators of creative thinking skills. Therefore, we need to develop learning design which can improve student^s creative thinking skills especially originality.

Keywords: creative thinking skills, ESD, enviromental pollution

Topic: ESD in Science Education