ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research is to describe the critical thinking skills and creative thinking skills of 8th-semester chemistry education students. The study used quantitative analysis to provide an overview of students’ abilities. The instrument used was an open-ended essay test based on non-routine problems accompanied by a scoring rubric that has been validated and declared valid for use as a test to measure critical and creative thinking skills. The results showed that students’ critical thinking skills were in a good enough category for analysis, interpretation, and inference indicators, while their ability to think creatively was in the poor category for indicators of fluency, originality, flexibility, and elaboration. The results of this study are expected to be the basis for developing learning that can improve students’ critical and creative thinking skills. Critical and creative thinking skills are essential for the problem-solving process.
