Enhancing Creative Problem Solving Skills using LEGO® Mindstorm EV3 in STEM Based Learning

Abstract

Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is a process to solve a problem faced imaginatively and resulted in effective action. There are 4 aspects that are assessed in CPS which are fact finding, problem finding, idea finding, and solution finding. With the assumption that CPS could be trained and improved, this research aim is to investigate the enhancement of senior high school student's CPS skills after practicing STEM-based learning. The topic in this research is the concept of momentum and impulse using LEGO® Mindstorm EV3 as the media. This study uses a pre-experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design. The sample of this research is 25 senior high school students in Bandung that are determined with the cluster random sampling technique. By analyzing the N-Gain, the result shows that the enhancement of CPS skill is in the middle category with <g> between 0.31-0.63.