Fipriyani, Wahid@Fitriani
(1997)
THE CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS OF FORM SIX STUDENTS.
Masters thesis, Institut Aminuddin Baki / University of Houston.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to describe the creative thinking skills of Form Six students. The survey method was the research design used to examine the following research question: What are the creative thinking skills of Form Six students? The variable described in this study was the creative thinking skills of Form Six students. The instrument used to address the above variable was the Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking. The test was comprised of three sections; namely the Circles Test, Ask and Guess Test and Unusual Use of Tin Test. The test was administered among 40 Form Six students, drawn from two schools: SMK Tawau and SMK Kuhara, Tawau, Sabah. The participants were chosen by Random Sampling Procedure with fair components of male and female respondents. The results were analyzed and computed for frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations, which were then presented in narrative, tabular, and graphic forms. The analysis revealed that there was a wide range of creativity among Form Six students. The overall creativity level of Form Six students varies in all tasks of ideational fluency, flexibility and originality. Not surprisingly, the students' creativity was best in ideational fluency, but, lower in ideational flexibility, and originality. The findings also indicated that the students' creativity, in terms of figural flexibility was higher than their ideational flexibility; and so does figural originality, which was also higher than their ideational originality. Hence, it can be concluded that the instrument used in this study was successful in describing the creative thinking skills of the Malaysian Form Six students.
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