Ethno-Stem Project-Based Learning: Its Impact to Critical and Creative Thinking Skills

By W. Sumarni, S. Kadarwati. 2020

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Guiding students how to think critically and creatively is a crucial part of the educational process in order to meet the required skills to face the 21 st century. In addition, attention to the local culture especially that is closely related to the scientific concepts needs to be strongly emphasized. Due to those two aspects i.e. creative and critical thinking as well as attention to local culture, the ethno-STEM project-based learning for high school students has been implemented and its impact to students’ critical and creative thinking skills has been investigated. This study involved 230 students from seven high schools in Central Java Indonesia. The data collection was carried out through a set of instruments to reveal the students’ critical and creative thinking skills. The instruments were declared as valid based on the experts’ judgment and showed an Alpha Cronbach score of 0.79 prior to use. The results showed that the ethno-STEM project-based learning was able to improve the average critical and creative thinking skills of students in all indicators varying from low to medium categories. The improvement of students' critical thinking skills was observed by the achievement of the N-gain score, i.e. 52 students (22.6%) achieved a high category, 102 students (44.4%) achieved a medium category, and 76 students (33.0%) achieved a low category. Moreover, an increase in the creative thinking skills was also observed, indicated by the N-gain score, i.e. 63 students (27.4%) were at a high category, 109 students (47.4%) were at a medium category, and 58 students (25.2%) were at a low category. In conclusion, the ethno-STEM project-based learning showed a significant effect on the improvement of students' critical and creative thinking skills.

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The Implementation of Local Environmental Problem-Based Learning Student Worksheets to Strengthen Environmental Literacy (2020, background): “Furthermore, according to Sumarni & Kadarwati (2020), students’ creative thinking skills can be achieved if students can come up with original ideas in solving problems.”
The Effect of PjBL with WBL Media and Cognitive Style on Students’ Understanding and Science-Integrated Concept Application (2020, background): “…science-integrated learning media one of which can be done by involving pre-service teachers directly (Sarmi et al., 2019), involving preservice teachers in designing science-integrated learning media (Weitzel & Blank, 2020) through learning strategies project-based (Sumarni & Kadarwati, 2020).”