Measuring Construct Validity and Students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking Skills

Kadir, Irna Rahmawati

2018

Abstract

This study aims to measure construct validity tests of mathematical creative thinking skills (MCTS) and analyze students' MCTS. This research was conducted at a Junior High Schools in the city of Bekasi. This study was a survey involving 180 students as participants. Data analysis uses confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and path analysis. The results revealed that: (1) Tests of MCTS are valid and consistently measured through fluency, elaboration, flexibility, and originality constructs; (2) Construct reliability of the fluency indicator is 0.952, elaboration of 0.976, flexibility of 0.622, and originality of 0.710; (3) Overall the average student's MCTS is 50.27 on a scale (0-100), where female students are 61.45 and male is 49.54. Achievement the highest MCTS of students is obtained in the flexibility indicator of 68.08 then the fluency is 66.95, elaboration is 34.30, and the lowest is the originality indicator 31.76; (4) Students' MCTS on the fluency indicator has an indirect effect on the indicator of originality through moderating indicators of elaboration and flexibility. The conclusion of this study is that MCTS are measured from indicators of fluency, elaboration, flexibility, and originality. The overall MCTS of students is still relatively low, where female students are quite good and higher than male students. The ability to solve problems in the originality indicator is the core of MCTS.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kadir. and Rahmawati I. (2018). Measuring Construct Validity and Students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking Skills.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 667-674. DOI: 10.5220/0009914406670674

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Kadir and Irna Rahmawati},
title={Measuring Construct Validity and Students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking Skills},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={667-674},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009914406670674},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Measuring Construct Validity and Students’ Mathematical Creative Thinking Skills
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Kadir.
AU - Rahmawati I.
PY - 2018
SP - 667
EP - 674
DO - 10.5220/0009914406670674