Identification of Creative Thinking Ability of Malay Ethnic Students in Archimedes Law with Rasch Analysis Model (RAM): A Case Study

Abstract

This study aims to identify the creative thinking skills of vocational school students with Malay ethnicity in solving problems regarding Archimedes law. Creative thinking skill is skill that students must have in the 21st century. Therefore, this skill must be trained through the learning process. This research was conducted on 21 students of class X DPIB with 12 men, 9 women and 15 of them are ethnic Malay, the rest are settled migrants. This research is a case study research. The data obtained were analysed with Rasch Analysis Model (RAM). From the analysis results it was found that the ability of Malay students' creative thinking was still low. The reliability person is weak and the reliability item is good. The tendency of respondent's ability to work on problems is smaller than the level of difficulty of the questions. There are differences in the level of creative thinking ability of Malay ethnic and non-Malay ethnic students.