CONSTRUCT OF CREATIVE THINKING ASSESSMENT ON DIVERGENT AND CONVERGENT ABILITY

Education Research

This research and development aims (1) to develop an assesment instrument for creative thinking, and (2) to find out the characteristics of the creative thinking assessment instrument for the kindergarten teachers in the province of Central Java. The study used the Research and Development approach with ADDIE instructional model (Analyze-Design-Develop-Implementation-Evaluation) by Molenda (2003). The subjects of the research were kindergarten teachers in Central Java selected by using purposive random sampling consisting of 281 kindergarten teachers. The product development result had been tested specifically to the respondent and then be tested generally to 281 respondent. The construct validity analysis result applied Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) showed 39 valid item, and reliability coefficient Alpha Cronbach and composition score shows good categorized. The results of the research show as the following: 1) the kindergarten teachers creative thinking constructive assessment instrument covered 3 components (teacher's professionalism, convergent thinking, and divergent thinking), 2) the characteristic development product is: a) the developed model was identical to the theory (Ho is rejected), b) the developed product’s effectiveness is categorised as high.

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