Creative thinking skill for pre-service physics teacher: An investigation in the topics of radioactivity

Abstract

Creative thinking skills are one of the 21st century skills that are important to support the long-term success of individuals, companies, industries, and countries, so they need to be provided to students. This study aims to examine the creative thinking skills of pre-service physics teacher students in radioactivity case. Quantitative descriptive method is used in this research. The subjects of this study were 22 final year pre-service physics teacher students at one of in Institute of Teachers Training Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan. The instrument used in this research is a creative thinking skill test in the form of an essay based on indicators objective finding, fact finding, problem finding, idea finding, solution finding, and acceptance finding. The results showed that the students’ creative thinking skills were categorized as not creative. An improvement effort is needed in the lecture activities to improve students’ creative thinking skills