U.Y. Riani, H. Nurcahyo
Often founded more emphasis on memorizing the educational word that makes high level thinking ability of the students seldom trained. The 2013 Curriculum implemented higher-order thinking that encourage students to think critically, logically, reflective and creative. This study aims to describe the questionnaire of preliminary study and creative thinking skills of high school students in Surakarta. This research's type is descriptive qualitative. Sampling techniques used a Purposive Sampling based on the location of the school and the category of schools. Test instruments of students' creative thinking are provided towards four school in Surakarta. Data obtained from questionnaire of preliminary study and creative thinking skills instrument of student's creative thinking skills. The validity and reliability of the test instrument analyzed quantitatively using the Quest. Internal consistency value is 0.90, it means that the instrument has high reliability. The results of the preliminary study shows that the majority of learning methods used by teacher was discussion (31.9%), lecture (42.2%), and laboratory activities (7.1%). While, the results of the creative thinking skills is shows that the students had very less category (11.2%), had less category (73.9%), and had medium category (14.9%). © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Biology Education Departement, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
