Improving students’ creative thinking skills through guided inquiry practicums learning with STEM approach

The main purpose of this study was to improve students’ creative thinking skills through guided inquiry practicum learning with STEM approach. The method used in this study was a quasi-experimental with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample of this study was 30 students from one of public senior high schools in the West Bandung Regency area. The instrument of this study was an essay for creative thinking skills. The test consisted of 11 questions with indicators of creative thinking skills according to Guilford, namely fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. The data were analysed by using n-gain scores and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. The result of this study showed that there was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores with p -value of 0.000 and the improvement of creative thinking skills on each indicator with n-gain scores was 0.73 for fluency (high), 0.34 for flexibility (medium), 0.03 for originality (low) and 0.19 for elaboration (low). All four indicators have improved even though the improved of originality and elaboration at a low criteria. This study suggested that the implementation of guided inquiry practicum learning with STEM approach could be used as an alternative for improving students’ creative thinking skills.