The Effect of Project Based Learning on the Students’ Creative Thinking Skill in Writing Narrative Text

Abstract

The research was a quantitative research. The objective of this research was to find out the effect of applying project based learning on the students’ creative thinking skill in writing narrative text. The research was conducted at SMPN 38 MEDAN by used google classroom and zoom application. The population of this research was ninth grade students of SMPN 38 Medan academic year 2020/2021. The sample of the research were 32 students. They are from IX-4 class. The instrument for collecting the data was written test. The result showed that the mean of pre test was 51 and the mean of post test was 78. The t-table with 5% significance of degree freedom was 2.04. The result of t-observed was 8.50. The tobserved was higher than t-table (8.50 > 2.04). So, it stated that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected.