possibilities that allow old problems to be
considered from a new perspective (Sriraman, 2005)
Creative thinking includes aspects of cognitive,
affective, and metacognitive skills. The aspect of
cognitive skills contains the ability: identify
problems, compose different questions, identify
relevant and irrelevant data, generate many ideas
(fluency), different ideas (flexibility), new ideas,
change old mindsets and habits, compose new
relationships and renew plans or ideas (Siswono,
2008). The characteristics of creative thinking
abilities, includes: 1) Fluency, namely the ability to
produce many ideas, solve problems or questions; 2)
Flexibility, namely the ability to produce many
varied and different ways; 3) Originality, namely the
ability to think in new ways or with unique
expressions and unusual thoughts from thoughts that
are clearly known; 4) Elaboration, namely the ability
to detail an object, idea, or situation (Siswono,
2008). Based on this definition, it can be concluded
that the ability to think creatively in mathematics
learning which later became known as mathematical
creative thinking skills (MCTS) is an ability that
reflects fluency, flexibility, and originality in
thinking, as well as the ability to elaborate an idea in
solving mathematical problems. Thus, the indicator
of MCTS are fluency, elaboration, flexibility, and
originality.
But in reality, MCTS Indonesian students have
not been reached maximally. The results of an
international study of the 2015, Program for
International Student Assessment (PISA) showed
that only about 10% of Indonesian students were
able to answer level 4, 5, and 6 tests. Characteristics
of tests at level 4, 5, and 6, contained questions
which requires the ability to construct, express
explanations and compile arguments based on
interpretation. Work in complex situations, identify
constraints, choose, compare, and evaluate problem
solving strategies, use broad reasoning, reflect,
formulate and express interpretations and reasoning.
Think of high-level mathematics and put it right
about their findings, arguments, and accuracy in the
original situation (PISA, 2015). Furthermore, the
results of Fardah's research revealed that the
achievement of MCTS of elementary and secondary
school students is still in the low category, which is
46.67% (Fardah, 2012).
Some of the efforts to improve students’ MCTS,
are in providing learning interventions through work
on non-routine problem tests. Learning evaluations
that involve students in completing non-routine tests
must be presented in class. According to Novita et
al., (Novita, Zulkardi, & Hartono, 2012) that one of
the factors causing low scores obtained by students
on the PISA test is the test material and international
standardized test from PISA not yet taught in class.
Besides that most tests in the evaluation process are
still at a low level. Therefore, the mathematical
problem solving test formulated in PISA can be
adapted to develop MCTS tests.
Several recent studies in Indonesia are related to
the development of students’ MCTS instruments
(Fitriani & Yarmayani, 2018) (Fitriani &
Yarmayani, 2018) (Fitriarosah, 2016) (Moma,
2015). Generally this research is a development
research with validity analysis, reliability,
discriminating index, and item difficulty level. The
study has not developed and measured the construct
through the Confirmatory Factor Analysis
procedure. Almost no research has specifically
explained the theoretical constructs of the MCTS
test empirically. Therefore, this study aims to: (1)
measure the construct validity of MCTS tests, and
(2) analyze students' MCTS.
2 METHOD
This study was a survey conducted in 6 junior high
schools (SMP A, SMP B, SMP C, SMP D, SMP E
and SMP F) in the city of Bekasi involving 180
students (male = 98, female = 82) as participants. A
total of 30 students were taken randomly from each
school. The MCTS test developed in the form of an
essay consists of 11 items, representing fluency
indicators, elaboration, flexibility, and originality.
Representation of items into indicators, including:
fluency (1, 2, 3), elaboration (4, 5), flexibility (6, 7,
8), and originality (9, 10, 11). This study involves
rectangular flat geometry. Before empirically testing
MCTS test items, it was first assessed the feasibility
of expert panelists from the aspect of content and the
accuracy of items measuring indicators.
Furthermore, an assessment of student answers from
the MCTS test results uses a rubric adapted from
Bosch (Bosch, 2008). The rubrics of students'
creative mathematical thinking skills, in Table 1.
Table 1: Rubric of the MCTS Test
No answer or no relevant
answer
Give an idea that is relevant to
problem solving but the
disclosure is less clear or
wrong.
Provide an idea that is relevant
to problem solving but the
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