
 
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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