Journal of Educational Sciences
Vol 5, No 1: January 2021

Building Students' Creative Thinking Skills Using Problem- Based Learning in Handling Staple Food Waste

Rista Firdausa Handoyo (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)
Momo Rosbiono (Unknown)
Wahyu Sopandi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Jan 2021

Abstract

This study aims to build students' creative thinking skills using problem - based learning in handling staple food waste. The research methods are development and research with the stages of design, development, and evaluation. This research was conducted at a private high school in Tangerang Regency. The research was involved thirty students of Class XI IPA in the second semester of the 2019/2020 school year and was connected through the WhatsApp group. The research instrument used Student Worksheets (LKS) in the form of a test essay for nine items that have been validated to measure students’ creative thinking skills. The research data were analyzed quantitatively by using Microsoft Excel and qualitative-  descriptive. The results of the students' creative thinking skills showed the percentage of fluency (31.66%), flexibility (35.18%), elaboration (58.33%), and evaluation (54.88%) indicators, the average percentage was 45.01% categorized as medium. The conclusions drawn are the creative thinking skills that emerge after using problem-based learning are fluent thinking, flexibility thinking, evaluative thinking, and elaborative thinking.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JES

Publisher

Subject

Religion Humanities Education Library & Information Science Other

Description

JES publishes original articles on the latest issues and trends occurring regionally and internationally in the educational sciences with the aim to advance our knowledge both in term of theory and practice. Moreover, this journal also covers the issues concerned with the following special sections: ...