Analysis of the Creative Thinking Ability of Students SMA N 1 Pecangaan Jepara on Environmental Change Material

Abstract

Creative thinking is an ability of creating a new thought as a result from combination of previous knowledge. It is needed to be developed in the 21^st century because it is importance in work world. This study aims to analyze the students’ creative thinking of SMA N 1 Pecangaan on environmental material. The research used observational method. Population is whole students of tenth grade of SMA N 1 Pecangaan. The samples used purposive samplings were X MIA 1, X MIA 2 and X MIA 4 with total number 116 students. The students’ creative thinking was tested by essay test and instrument non-test which is scoring rubric of writing article about environment problems. The result showed that students’ creative thinking of SMA N 1 Pecangaan in answering question is 14.7% very creative, 31% creative, 20.7% creative enough and 33.6% less creative. The students’ ability in writing article showed 0% very creative, 16.4% creative, 30% creative enough, 49.1% less creative and 4.3% not creative. The research concluded that the creative thinking ability of students SMA N 1 Pecangaan is low. The highest aspects of creative thinking that is reached by students are originality and fluency, while the lowest is elaboration.