STUDY OF STUDENTS’ CREATIVE THINKING ABILITY IN SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES INTEGRATED SCIENCE LEARNING

Creative thinking skills are needed in this growing era, especially for the next generation of students. Creative thinking skills help students find new ideas as a solution to problems faced in real life. This study was conducted to investigate learning integrated with SSI approach to enhance students’ capacity for original thought in science courses. The research used a mixed method with quasi-experimental design and secondary document analysis on one treated class. Prior to and following treatment, students took a pre-test and post-test on creative thinking skills. The findings revealed a Sig value of 0.008 indicating that there is a relationship and influence between SSI integrated learning and students' creative thinking skills in science learning. The data shows the highest value of 92.5% on the flexibility, and 90.24% originality, while the lowest value is 28% on the elaboration. Each student has a different creative thinking ability and can be seen from the tendency in the achievement of each indikator on creative thinking ability.