Comparison of Level of Inventive Thinking among Science and Arts Students

AbstractThis study was to review and compare the extent of the inventive thinking of form four students of science and arts stream in national secondary schools. The level of inventive thinking surveyed in this study involved 660 students who were selected from five national secondary schools from the area of Machang, Kelantan. Seven inventive thinking sub-constructs reviewed were flexibility, higher-order thinking, self-regulation, curiosity, creativity, willingness to take risks and spiritual norms and values. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistic. The descriptive analysis found that six out of seven sub-constructs of inventive thinking studied showed a high level among the respondents as a whole. Those sub-constructs were flexibility, higher-order thinking, self-regulation, curiosity, creativity and spiritual norms and values. Meanwhile, one sub-construct, willingness to take risks, showed a medium level of min value interpretation. The findings of two-way ANOVA inference shows that variables of stream, location and gender affect the determination of the level of most inventive thinking sub-constructs studied