Students' creative-innovative thinking skill in solving rainbow antimagic coloring under research based learning model

Abstract

The study aims to investigate students' creative-innovative thinking skill in solving rainbow antimagic coloring on research based learning model. The method used in this study is a mixed method, i.e. combining the qualitative and quantitative methods. The research subjects were 4th semester of students of higher education consisting of 41 students of experimental class and 30 students of control class. The instruments of this research are test, an observation, and an interview. Qualitative method is applied to analyze observation and development research, while quantitative method is applied to analysis the difference in student achievment result among two classes. The result show that there are significant difference between the two classes that applied research based learning and conventional learning models. The statistical result indicates that the (2-Tailed) significance of the independent sample t-Test in the post-Test was 0.000 or p < 0.05. It implies that the implementation of RBL, significantly influenced the students' creative-innovative thinking skill in solving rainbow antimagic coloring.