Analysis of the Implementation of Project-Based Learning in Improving Elementary School Students’ Creative Abilities
Analisis Penerapan Project-Based Learning dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Kreatif Siswa Sekolah Dasar
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https://doi.org/10.21070/ups.11567Keywords:
Creativity, elementary school, project-based learning, qualitative study, student engagementAbstract
Creativity is a central twenty-first-century competence, yet elementary classroom practices may provide limited opportunities for students to generate, test, and refine ideas. This qualitative descriptive case-study design examines the implementation of Project-Based Learning in supporting fifth-grade students’ creative abilities. The planned data sources include classroom observations, semi-structured interviews, documentation, and student artifacts, followed by thematic analysis. This manuscript version uses simulated data to demonstrate how contextual questions, student choice, collaboration, experimentation, feedback, revision, and creativity indicators can be integrated into qualitative reporting. The synthesis suggests that fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration may develop when teachers provide guided autonomy and appropriate scaffolding. The simulated evidence must not be treated as factual field data before it is verified through legitimate research procedures. The study offers a reporting and process-assessment framework that can be applied once authentic data are available.
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