Value Clarification Technique based on Open Ended Approach to Increase Pre-Service Teachers’ Art Appreciation

Nowadays, the process of learning art tends to make students to imitate form, style, and expression into artworks. For this reason, a change in the learning process is needed. The application of value clarification technique (VCT) based on an open-ended approach is a learning process that prioritizes student activity through a process of clarifying concepts and ending with conclusions. The research subjects were pre-service elementary teachers (PSTs) from Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Riau University. The results showed that the implementation of open-ended VCT increased PSTs’ artistic appreciation abilities from the average score of 39.72 in the pre-test to 76.61 in the posttest with an average increase of 0.66, medium categories. The open-ended VCT approach improves the learning process and has a strong influence on the ability of PSTs'artistic appreciation with a coefficient of 0.761 and a coefficient of determination of 52.7%, which can be interpreted as an open-ended VCT approach affecting PSTs' artistic appreciation.