An Analysis of Creative Thinking Ability Between The Students Who Are Given Open-Ended Learning with Conventional Learning in VIII Grade Junior High School

Mathematics Education

This research is a research with quantitative approach to analyse the difference of students’ creative thinking ability through open-ended learning with conventional learning. The population in this research was all students of Prayatna Medan Junior High School 2015/2016 Academic Years. The sample of this research was VIII Grade students of Prayatna Medan Junior High School which’s chosen randomly and there’s chosen VIII-I class for experiment class and VIII-II for control class where each classes consist of 31 students as the subject of the research. The instrument used in this research was test of creative thinking ability in SPLDV material. The data analysis used similarity test between two averages, done by ‘t-test’. based on the research result, the conclusions of this research were (1) the improvement of students’ creative thinking ability who had open-ended learning is better than the students’ who had conventional learning, (2) there was the difference of students’ creative thinking ability who had open-ended learning with the students’ who had conventional learning.

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