Research and Development of a Training Package for Developing Creative Problem Solving of Undergraduate Students

Today, a large number of students are lack of the ability of problem solving, which resulted in negative effects toward their lives, minds and society. Development of creative problem solving is necessary to take place in the student, in order to allow them to gain the ability in facing the problem and solving the problem, by using new method with more effective and suitable for each situation of the problem. The purpose of this study is to observe the requirement in developing creative problem solving of undergraduate students and to develop training package in developing creative problem solving of undergraduate students. Methods used in this study are basically consisted of two stages. The first stage is including with the needs assessment. In developing creative problem solving of undergraduate students, the samples used are the 420 undergraduate students. The research tool used in this study is the needs assessment form, created by the researcher. The second stage is the development of training package for developing creative problem solving of undergraduate students. Results, in the first stage, it was observed that the undergraduate students are required to improve the creative problem solving in the stage of Problem Finding at most. In the second stage, it was found that the training package created comprises of 6 study units with 19 training activities and total duration used in training of 27 hours.