Torrance Creative Thinking Profile of Senior High School Students in Biology Learning: Preliminary Research

Abstract

Abstract One of the skills developed in the 21st century is creative thinking skills. Creative thinking is a thought process that produces a wide variety of possible ideas and various solutions. The theme of environmental change and waste recycling is one of the learning themes closely related to everyday life. This study aims to analyze students’ creative thinking skills in biology subjects with environmental change and waste recycling. This research is descriptive quantitative research. The subjects of this study were 32 students of class X science Muhammadiyah 1 Pontianak. The technique of collecting data wasa test of creative thinking skills in the form of description questions. The questions used were based on indicators from Torrance (1969). The percentage of each indicators, namely fluency was in the medium category (55.5%), flexibility was in the medium category (52.3%), originality was in the medium category (50.8%), and elaboration was in the low category (32.9%). The average of all indicators was 48%. Based on findings, it can be concluded the ability to think creatively is still low. Further research requires a learning model to improve creative thinking skills such as the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) or Project Based Learning (PjBL) model.