Analyzing Students Responses to Construct Open Ended Question to Assess Scientific Creative and Critical Thinking (SCCT-Test) Related to Hydrostatic Pressure

Abstract

Information about students' scientific creative thinking and scientific critical thinking skills is one of the important factorin order to ancillary students' learning achievement in the subjects of physics, including hydrostatic pressure. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify students' scientific creative thinking and scientific critical thinking skills profile through developing a diagnostic instrument test named Scientific Creative and Critical Thinking (SCCT) test in the open-ended questions form. The instrument SCCT-test consist of two scientific creative thinking test and three scientific critical thinking test related to hydrostatic pressure had been developed based on Scientific Structure Creativity Model (SSCM) and Assessment of Critical Thinking Ability (ACTA). In this paper,the instrument SCCT-test had been reconstructed three times on each times 10 eleventh grade students' responses and model answers that constructed based on rubrics at SSCM and ACTA. The last constructed SCCT-Test have made students reveal their ideas and their critical reasoning related to the problems.From this result, we can consider SCCT-Test can be used to diagnose students scientific creative thinking and scientific critical thinking simultantly related to hydrostatic pressure.