scholarly journals Profile of conceptual photosynthesis and creative thinking: Study of 7th-grade students

Biosfer ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
Elis Sumarni ◽  
Anandita Eka Setiandi ◽  
Ari Sunandar

Profile of students’ creative thinking and conceptual understanding is essential to create an initial description of students’ competencies in overcoming their learning difficulties. The research aims to describe profile of concept understanding and creative thinking skills of 7thgrade students of all SMP Negeri (public junior high school) in Rasau Jaya sub-district, Kubu Raya Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia in photosynthesis content. The research uses qualitative descriptive method. The sampling technique employs disproportionate stratified random sampling. Samples consist of 143 students of 7th grade from three SMP Negeri in Rasau Jaya Sub-district, Kuburaya Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The data collection technique utilizes creative thinking skill test in the form of an essay with fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration aspects. Students’ concept understanding test is in the form of four-tier diagnostic test. Data analysis employs descriptive statistics with percentage of creative thinking and conceptual understanding in categories of understanding, partial understanding, misconception, and not understanding. The creative thinking skill percentage of SMPN students in Rasau Jaya, Indonesia in the originality and flexibility aspect is in a fairly creative category, whereas in the elaboration and fluency aspect the category is still less creative. The highest percentage of students’ conceptual understanding is misconception of 45.25% and followed by an understanding of 30.64%, not understand of 13.2%, and partial understanding of 10.97%. The obtained data give evidence that natural sciences (IPA) learning knowledge among junior high school students, especially concept understanding and creative thinking, is still low. Therefore, teachers could develop students’ creative thinking skills so their concept understanding could be improved.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Qomariah ◽  
Suratno Suratno ◽  
Yushardi Yushardi

Creative thinking including higher order thinking. Creative thinking is very important in the learning of science. Often there is a difference in creative thinking in both male and female. The purpose of this research is to determine the profile of creative thinking skills in science learning in junior high school to the different gender. This research is descriptive methods. Creative thinking skill is measured by creative thinking rubric. The Data were analysed using descriptive quantitative using Microsoft Excel. The result of research has a variate creative thinking skills in science learning process in male and female.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zaky

The main objective of this research is to produce junior high school Physics teaching materials oriented to a simple practical tool that can be used to foster junior high school students 'creative thinking skills, with the specific aim of knowing the indicators of junior high school students' creative thinking skills that can be grown through the use of a guided inquiry learning model assisted by a simple practicum tool. This type of research is a quasi-experimental research with the design of Equivalent Pretest-Posttest Design (Design of Prates-Pascates Equivalent). This research was conducted at the Labschool Junior High School of Tadulako University where  the class VIII students being the research subjects. The research instrument used was an essay test and observation sheet. The data analysis technique used was quantitative data analyzed by inferential statistics, calculating the significance of the differences in the average of both groups of samples and qualitative data analyzed by using the stages of data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results showed that a guided inquiry learning model assisted by a simple practicum tool could foster the creative thinking skills of the students of Labschool UNTAD Junior High School in the indicators of flexible thinking, fluent thinking and originality.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1068
Author(s):  
Anik Indrayani ◽  
Endang Susantini ◽  
Wahono Widodo

This research was aimed to describe the effectiveness of learning materials taht developed using problem solving model to facilitate junior high school students’ creative thinking skills on global warming. This research was done because the problem solving model’s learning materials to facilitate students’ creative thinking skill was less available. Learning in schools was tend to emphasize the aspects of knowledge only, whereas creative thinking skill was an important skill possessed in the 21st century. Applying creative thinking skill in problem solving would generate a lot of ideas that were useful in finding solution. The learning materials were developed using 3D model and one group pretest-posttest design was used as the trial design. The subject in this study was learning materials that was implemented on 7th grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Kediri. The results showed that the students' creative thinking skills both in general and each indicator increased. Based on the results and discussion of the study, it can be concluded that the learning materials using problem solving method were effective to facilitate junior high school students’ creative thinking skills on global warming. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan keefektifan perangkat pembelajaran yang dikembangkan dengan model problem solving untuk melatihkan keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa SMP pada materi pemanasan global. Hal ini dilakukan karena perangkat pembelajaran dengan model problem solving untuk melatihkan keterampilan berpikir kreatif kurang tersedia. Pembelajaran di sekolah cenderung menekankan pada aspek pengetahuan saja, padahal keterampilan berpikir kreatif merupakan skill yang penting dimiliki pada abad 21. Penerapan berpikir kreatif dalam problem solving akan menghasilkan banyak ide yang berguna dalam menemukan penyelesaian masalah. Perangkat pembelajaran dikembangkan menggunakan model 3D dengan rancangan ujicoba penelitian one group pretest-posttest design.  Subyek dalam penelitian ini adalah perangkat pembelajaran model problem solving yang diujicobakan pada 32 siswa SMP Negeri 1 Kediri kelas VII. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa baik secara umum maupun tiap indikator meningkat. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dan diskusi hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa perangkat pembelajaran model problem solving efektif untuk melatihkan keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa SMP pada materi pemanasan global.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 911
Author(s):  
Mella Mutika Sari ◽  
Tjandra Kirana ◽  
Muslimin Ibrahim

A research that has purpose to develop science learning material on pollution matter based on Quantum Teaching model to try student creative thinking skills had been done, it was done in two phase, namely learning material development phase with 4D model from Thiagarajan and try out on 30 junior high school students in class with pretest-posttest design. Data analysis with qualitative and quantitative descriptive. Validation analysis result of learning materials were valid with average of reliability 90,57%  and 80,95% in average of implementation reliability. Test of student achievement on knowledge competency was analyzed by N-Gain. It showed increasing (0,88), average of student skill competency was 3,86 (A-) and student attitude competency was excellent. Student creative thinking skills in the beginning of learning were  42,67% with fair category and in the closing of learning were 70,12% with creative category. Based on research result , it can be concluded that science learning materials on pollution matter based on Quantum Teaching model that had been developed were proper and can be used to try student creative thinking skill of junior high school. Telah dilakukan penelitian yang bertujuan mengembangkan perangkat pembelajaran IPA  materi pencemaran lingkungan yang berorientasi model Quantum Teaching untuk melatih kemampuan berpikir kreatif siswa, yang dilaksanakan dalam dua tahap, yaitu tahap pengembangan perangkat pembelajaran dengan model 4-D dari Thiagarajan dan diuji coba pada 30 siswa SMP kelas VII dengan pretest-posttest design. Analisis data secara deskriptif kualitatif kuantitatif. Hasil analisis validasi perangkat pembelajaran valid dengan rata-rata reliabilitas 90,57% dan reliabilitas keterlaksanaan pembelajaran 80,95%. Tes hasil belajar siswa pada kompetensi pengetahuan dianalisis menggunakan N-Gain mengalami peningkatan (0,88), rata-rata kompetensi keterampilan siswa 3,86 (A-), dan kompetensi sikap siswa sangat baik. Kemampuan berpikir kreatif siswa pada awal pembelajaran sebesar 42,67% dengan kategori cukup kreatif dan di akhir pembelajaran sebesar 70,12% dengan kategori kreatif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa perangkat pembelajaran IPA pada materi pencemaran lingkungan berorientasi model Quantum Teaching yang dikembangkan layak dan dapat digunakan untuk melatih kemampuan berpikir kreatif siswa SMP.


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