Abstract. This research aims to reveal the profile about the level of creativity and the ability to
propose statistical problem of students at Mathematics Education 2014 Batch in the State
University of Makassar in terms of their cognitive style. This research uses explorative
qualitative method by giving meta-cognitive scaffolding at the time of research. The hypothesis
of research is that students who have field independent (FI) cognitive style in statistics problem
posing from the provided information already able to propose the statistical problem that can
be solved and create new data and the problem is already been included as a high quality
statistical problem, while students who have dependent cognitive field (FD) commonly are still
limited in statistics problem posing that can be finished and do not load new data and the
problem is included as medium quality statistical problem.
Keywords: scaffolding, cognitive style, field independent, field dependen
