Enhancing student creative thinking skills through HOTVL design

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the creative thinking skills improvement through Higher Order Thinking Virtual Lab (HOTVL) learning. This research used a quasi-experiment method with pre- and post-test group design. 57 students took part in this research from eleventh grade student in a senior high school which is divided into two classes, experiment and control group. Student of experiment group using HOTVL experiment design and control group using lab virtual verification design. Students' creative thinking skill was measured using tests of creative thinking skill in form of nine essay question about global warming. Learning activities in this research completed with a worksheet and lab virtual learning multimedia. This research using item response theory (IRT) to analyse the data. The result showed that the percentage of students' latent variable (score) of creative thinking skill in HOTVL class was higher than the percentage of students' score in lab virtual verification.