International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)
Vol 13, No 3: June 2024

Student’s creative thinking based on study level, learning style, gender, and combination of the three

Edwin Musdi (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Abdur Rahman As'ari (Universitas Negeri Malang)
Yulyanti Harisman (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Hamdani Syaputra (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Kelly Angelly Hevardani (Universitas Negeri Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2024

Abstract

All students from every level of education should have excellent and adequate creative thinking, but in Indonesia students’ creative thinking is still low. There are a lot of factors that affect creative thinking, such as learning styles. This study aimed to investigate the comparison of students’ creative thinking based on study level and learning styles, gender, and the combination of the three to determine which factor or type of students needs to be improved. This research uses a statistics descriptive method. The participants of this study were 38 senior high school students, 35 students of the teacher professional program (PPG), 24 undergraduate students (S1), and 12 master program students (S2). The instrument used in this study is a learning styles Learning style test to determine the student’s learning styles and creative thinking questions to classify the students. The results of this study are i) Students’ level of study does not determine their creativity level; ii) Based on gender, female is more creative than a man; iii) Based on the learning style, visual students is the best, followed by kinesthetic and auditory in order; and iv) Merdeka curriculum of Indonesia, nowadays, is essential to make the best learning process to improve students’ creative thinking.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJERE

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Subject

Education

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The International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) is an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on education which publishes papers to international audiences of educational researchers. The IJERE aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of ...