Open AccessCreative skill improvement of the teacher candidates in designing learning programs through a project-based blended learning
Author(s) -
Woro Sumarni,
S. Sudarmin,
Sri Kadarwati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1918/3/032026
Subject(s) - action research , mathematics education , creative thinking , scope (computer science) , process (computing) , project based learning , psychology , product (mathematics) , computer science , pedagogy , creativity , mathematics , social psychology , geometry , programming language , operating system
The students’ 21 st century skills are also determined by the teachers’ 21 st century competencies. One of them is the skill in designing learning programs. This applies as well for the teacher candidates. Improving the teacher candidates’ skill in designing learning programs is highly required and be the scope of this study. This study aims to improve the creative thinking skills of the teacher candidates in designing learning programs through a project-based blended learning (PjBL). This study was designed as an action research involving 32 teacher candidate students in a teacher education institution in Central Java, Indonesia as participants. The data collection was performed through an assessment on the process and product design of the learning programs. The data obtained were analyzed descriptively quantitatively and were categorized. An increase in the teacher candidate students’ creative thinking skills was achieved in this study with quite good and very good categories.