scholarly journals Enhancing Students’ Higher-Order Skills through Community Service Learning Using Scaffolding for Creative Problem Solving

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Jianjun Yin
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Creative Problem

scholarly journals Merging Engineering Education with Service-Learning: How Community Based Projects Encourage Socially Conscious Engineers

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Aaron Brown ◽  
Michael Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Creative Problem

Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving closed-ended problems. Too often, engineering programs do not encourage inventive expression in problem solving. Not surprisingly, the attrition rate for engineering programs is unusually high. Recently, engineering education has shifted its focus to new, more engaging practices that incorporate hands-on methods, boosting prospects for students to engage in creative problem solving. Because service learning provides opportunities for applied work, incorporating it into engineering education programs in can engage students positively and lower attrition rates. Moreover, since engineers are fundamentally involved with social improvement, then engaging students in activities that expand their understanding of the potential impact their skills may impart to a community is not only prudent but best practices. This paper explores two case studies of community-based service learning engineering projects, highlighting community partnerships, analyses and decision-making that helped drive designs and outcomes. It explores how both the communities and students benefitted, focusing notably on the influence these activities had on student understanding of their work, academic and/or professional direction and social consciousness. These are analyzed via longitudinal reporting of students incorporating lessons learned several years post-project. The service learning projects took place in marginalized communities in Denver and Costa Rica. In the Denver project, engineering students designed, built and installed low cost solar heaters into an area with poor housing stock. In Costa Rica, students built a solar water heater for a local school. Keywords: applied learning, engineering education, experiential learning, service-learning.

scholarly journals Pembelajaran model creative problem-solving untuk mendukung higher-order thinking skills berdasarkan tingkat disposisi matematis

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-199
Author(s):  
Rezky Agung Herutomo ◽  
Masrianingsih Masrianingsih
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Equivalent Control ◽  
Creative Problem

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan pengaruh model creative problem solving terhadap higher-order thinking skills ditinjau dari tingkat disposisi matematis siswa. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kuasi eksperimen menggunakan posttest only non-equivalent control group design. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas XI MIPA di salah satu SMA Negeri di Kendari. Dua kelas dipilih secara purposive sampling sebagai sampel penelitian, yaitu kelas XI-MIPA 1 sebagai kelas eksperimen dan XI-MIPA 3 sebagai kelas kontrol. Instrumen penelitian yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah tes higher-order thinking skills dan angket disposisi matematis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa rata-rata higher-order thinking skills siswa yang belajar dengan model creative problem solving lebih baik dari siswa yang belajar dengan pendekatan saintifik, sedangkan jika ditinjau dari tingkat disposisi matematis, siswa yang tingkat disposisi matematisnya tinggi memiliki rata-rata higher-order thinking skills yang lebih baik dibanding siswa yang tingkat disposisinya sedang dan rendah. Namun, tidak terdapat pengaruh interaksi antara model pembelajaran dan tingkat disposisi matematis terhadap rata-rata higher-order thinking skills siswa. Creative problem-solving learning model to promote higher-order thinking skills based on the level of mathematical dispositionAbstractThis study aims to describe the effect of the creative problem-solving model on higher-order thinking skills in terms of students' mathematical disposition levels. This research was a quasi-experimental study using a posttest only non-equivalent control group design. The population of this research was all students of 11th grade in one of public senior higher school in Kendari, Indonesia. Two classes were chosen by purposive sampling as the samples of this study that is XI-MIPA 1 as the experimental class and XI-MIPA 3 as the control class. The instruments used in this study were a higher-order thinking skills test and a mathematical disposition questionnaire. The results of this study show that the mean of higher-order thinking skills of students who studied with creative problem-solving models was better than students who studied with a scientific approach, while from the level of mathematical disposition, students with higher-level mathematical dispositions have better mean higher-order thinking skills than students with moderate and low disposition level. However, there is no effect of interaction between learning models and the level of mathematical disposition to the average higher-order thinking skills of students.

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