The effect of virtual labs toward students' understanding of physics based on gender

DOI

10.2991/icei-17.2018.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Virtual Labs; understanding, gender

Abstract

The concept of physics consists of concrete and abstract concepts. Students should be able to master the concept of physics as well as to be able to solve problems in physics. Students' concept mastery can be improved with technology-based learning. The study was conducted at three different high schools. We investigated the students' mastery improvement in physics learning assisted by virtual lab media. The sample was chosen using purposive sampling resulting 34 male students and 36 female students. The results showed that there was increase in entire students' concept mastery. In general, male students' mastery on the concept was higher than the female students. In particular, male students demonstrated higher mastery of higher con-cepts on higher cognitive aspects (analyzing, synthesizing, creating), while female students had a higher ability in the lower cognitive aspects (remembering, understanding, and applying).

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gunawan
AU  - Nina Nisrina
AU  - Ni Made Suranti
AU  - Ria Ekasari
AU  - L. Herayanti
PY  - 2018/02
DA  - 2018/02
TI  - The effect of virtual labs toward students' understanding of physics based on gender
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 128
EP  - 131
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icei-17.2018.34
DO  - 10.2991/icei-17.2018.34
ID  - 2018/02
ER  -