Analysis of Students' Critical and Creative Thinking Style and Cognitive Ability on Chemistry

This study aimed to determine chemistry education students' style of critical and creative thinking as well as cognitive abilities related to acid-base materials. The research method applied in this study was survey to identify the students' style of critical and creative thinking as well as cognitive abilities. Instructional process was conducted by using Student Center Learning (SCL). The sample consisted of 30 students (24 females and 6 males). The data were collected by using open-ended questions related to critical and creative thinking and Yanpiawcritical Creative Styles (YCCS ) test. The research showed that no student had superior creative thinking style category (0%), 20% of the students were categorized having creative thinking style (medium category), 46.66% had critical thinking, and 33.34% had superior critical thinking. Students' academic achievement showed that only 26.66% of the students have the interpretation critical thinking category, analysis critical thinking category (20%) and no student has the originality of creative thinking category. Based on data analysis, it can be concluded that the students' critical and creative thinking styles have the relationship with cognitive ability.