Effects of Idea Generation Module on Students' Creative Self-Efficacy

Education in the 21st century places the creative component as a fundamental element to ensure that graduates produced are able to fulfill the roles expected of them. The development of self-efficacy in employing creative habits among students is expected to optimize their creative performance. This study was conducted to identify the effects of creative idea generation module on students' creative self-efficacy. The module emphasizes students' awareness of their thinking process as well as the use of rnetacognitive strategies and thinking tools to generate ideas. This study employed a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group design. A total of 74 students were involved in the study, both from science and social science streams. Creative self-efficacy was measured based on 2 main sub-components i.e., creative thinking self-efficacy and creative performance self-efficacy. Tests were conducted before and after the training to observe the effects of the intervention on students' creative self-efficacy. Research findings show that students' creative self-efficacy can be enhanced through training aimed at developing divergent thinking skills thus helping them to have positive belief that ultimately help to enhance their creativity.