Development of a STEM-Based Kinetrac Teaching Aid to Improve Students’ Creative Thinking Skills in Uniformly Accelerated Motion

Abstract

This study was motivated by the low level of students’ creative thinking skills in physics learning, particularly in uniformly accelerated motion (UAM), where students tend to be limited in generating ideas, exploring various approaches, and developing diverse solutions. This study aimed to develop a Kinetrac teaching aid based on the STEM approach and to analyze its feasibility, effectiveness in improving creative thinking skills, and student responses. This study employed a Research and Development (R&D) method using the ADDIE model. The research subjects were grade X students of MA Mujahidin, consisting of an experimental class and a control class. The results showed that the Kinetrac teaching aid achieved a feasibility score of 83.8%, indicating that it is feasible. The effectiveness test indicated a significant difference between the experimental and control groups (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the N-Gain score in the experimental class was 52.28% (moderate category), while the control class obtained 29.24% (low category). Students’ responses toward the use of the Kinetrac teaching aid were highly positive, with a percentage of 88%. It can be concluded that the STEM-based Kinetrac teaching aid is feasible and effective in improving students’ creative thinking skills in physics learning on the UAM material.