Students’ creative thinking skills in biology learning: fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration

Abstract This study aimed at analysing junior high school students’ creative thinking skills in biology learning. Creative thinking skills were measured by providing 5 open-ended essays with the indicators of fluency, flexibility, original thinking, and elaboration thinking. The present study used descriptive survey method to obtain quantitative data without special treatment. The research participants were 189 eight-grade students registered in nine public junior high schools in Bangkalan Regency. The results showed that the students’ creative thinking skills were still low at all indicators of creative thinking skills and included in an uncreative category, especially in detailing and producing innovations as well as troubleshooting problems using various approaches. However, their fluency got the best score compared to other indicators even though the classical passing grade was not achieved.