Improving Senior High School Student’s Creativity Using Discovery Learning Model in Islamic Senior High School 1 Jambi City

Abstract

The curriculum 2013 as a new curriculum offers a scientific approach as a learning approach to address the challenges of the 21st century and improve the quality of education in Indonesia. Scientific approach is considered capable of improving scientific attitude, scientific thinking and scientific skills. Scientific attitude encourages students to be able to think Creative by using scientific data found and supported by scientific activities. One of the models offered in the curriculum 2013 is discovery learning which is an active student learning model. This research is a classroom action research conducted in three cycles to apply discovery learning model as an effort to improve students' scientific attitude, especially student creativity. With the involvement of 24 students Islamic Senior High School 1 Jambi City 2014/2015 in Physics course material Rectilinier Motion. From the test of each cycle, the students' creativity results are as follows: cycle I (2.08), cycle II (2.35) and cycle III (2.66). From the data can be concluded that by using the model of learning discovery learning can improve student creativity attitude.