A Profile Analysis of Junior High School Students’ Creative Thinking Skills on Science Learning in Boyolali

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10.2991/978-2-38476-481-5_4How to use a DOI?

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Creative thinking skills; Junior high school; Science learning

Abstract

In the era of the 21st century, the development of knowledge and technology is proliferating. This phenomenon enforces the world of education to keep up on improving self-qualities to produce competent human resources. The prominent and sought-after learning competencies in the 21st century consist of four skills (4C); Communication, Collaboration, Critical thinking and problem solving, and Creativity and innovation. In spite of that, one fundamental part that needs to be remarkably sophisticated in learning within this century is creative thinking skills. This study aims to determine the profile of creative thinking skills of junior high school students towards science learning. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with a written test method that contains creative thinking skills. The subjects in this study are 60 students from a State Junior High School in Boyolali regency that were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The test consists of eight questions with four aspects of creative thinking skills: fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. The results showed that the percentage of two elements of creative thinking skills is deteriorating as fluency (38.89%) and flexibility (38.89%) are considered low in the category, besides originality (42.5%) and elaboration (52.22%) gained enough category. Based on the results of the study, the average creative thinking skills of students was 43.13%. This shows that the level of creative thinking skills of students at Boyolali Junior High School is in the sufficient category. Therefore, it is necessary to have innovations in learning that can improve students’ creative thinking skills.

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AU  - Inggrid Sukma Hapsari
AU  - Widha Sunarno
AU  - Puguh Karyanto
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/11/19
TI  - A Profile Analysis of Junior High School Students’ Creative Thinking Skills on Science Learning in Boyolali
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Research, Implementation, and Education of Mathematics and Sciences (ICRIEMS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 28
EP  - 37
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-481-5_4
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-481-5_4
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