The effect of virtual lab and gender toward students’ creativity of physics in senior high school

Abstract

Creativity is one of the success goals in the learning process. One of the efforts to develop and improve creativity is through computer-based learning. This study aims to investigate the effect of virtual laboratory on student creativity which consists of verbal, numerical and figural creativity in physics. The increase of students' average score was compared based on their gender. This quasi-experimental study used a pre-test and post-test control group design conducted at four different schools with 51 male and 51 female students. The data were obtained based on creativity tests (essay form) that have been validated by experts. The tests of creativity can improvement differences that were done by calculating the average difference of N-gain score. The results showed that the female student's scores have higher than male students. In the aspect of verbal creativity, male and female students have the equal score relatively. Whereas, in the aspect of numerical and figural creativity that the female students have higher scores than the male students.