Enhancing senior high school students’ creative thinking skills using project based e-learning

Abstract

This study is aimed to identify the effectiveness of project based e-learning to enhance creative thinking skills in high school students. The students were asked to build magnetic car and rocket car from recycled materials. These projects were used to study Newton's laws of motion. The used method was quasi experiment with pretest-posttest control groups design. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 5 Purwokerto. The population in this research were all students of the 10th grade of science major (N=250). There were two sample classes, i.e. one experimental class (N=30) and one control class (N=30) selected with random sampling technique. The data used creative thinking skills test and were analyzed by using Independent Sample t-test. The data result shows that the significance level is below 0.05 and also shows that N-gain score of students' creative thinking skills in experiment class is higher than control class. This indicated that project based e-learning is effective to enhance the students' creative thinking skills in Newton's laws of motion.