The Analysis of Students Creative Thinking Ability Using Mind Map on Solution Topic
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10.29303/jpm.v20i7.10379Published:
2025-12-08Issue:
Vol. 20 No. 7 (2025): in ProgressKeywords:
Creative Thinking; Mind Map; Solution TopicArticles
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Creative thinking is one of the key competencies in 21st-century education. This study aimed to analyze students’ creative thinking skills on the topic of solutions using mind maps as an assessment tool. This study used a quantitative descriptive method involving 44 XII-grade students from two senior high schools in Padang City during the 2025/2026 academic year. The instrument used was adapted from Rahayu et al., focusing on four indicators of creative thinking: fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. The results showed that most students (95.45%) were categorized as less creative, while one student (2.27%) was creative, and one (2.27%) was not creative. No students achieved the highly creative level. The highest achievement was in the fluency aspect (86.36%), followed by flexibility (60.90%), originality (38.25%), and elaboration (19.88%). These findings indicate that students were relatively capable of generating ideas but struggled to develop and connect them in more original and detailed ways. This study highlights the novelty of using mind maps as an alternative assessment tool for measuring creative thinking in chemistry learning, specifically in the context of solutions, and suggests the need for creativity-oriented instructional approaches.
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Author Biographies
Melati Wahyuni, Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Padang State University
Faizah Qurrata Aini, Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Padang State University
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