THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MASTERY OF PHYSICS CONCEPTS AND CREATIVITY WITH PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY IN STATIC ELECTRICITY

Abstract

This research are aimed to know what was the correlation between mastery of physics concepts with problem-solving ability, creativity with problem-solving ability and mastery of physics concept and creativity with problem-solving ability on static electricity on Nasrani 1 senior high school Medan. The samples are students for grade XII natural sciences who had studied a static electricity as material consisted of 25 students were selected using purposive sampling. The type of research is a correlation research by mastery of physics concepts and creativity as an independent variable and problem-solving ability as a dependent variable. The instruments used for data collection were physics learning-outcomes tests and questionnaire surveys. Descriptive statistics, regression analysis, correlation analysis, and one-way analysis of varians (ANOVA) were used to analyze data. Based on results of data analysis, it is obtained that: 1. mastery of physics concepts and problem-solving ability be good-classified, meanwhile the student’s creativity be medium-classified and problem-solving ability be best-classified, 2. there were strength of positive correlations which is significant between mastery of physics concepts with problem-solving ability, creativity with problem-solving ability, and mastery of physics concepts and creativity simultaneously with problem-solving ability on the material of static electricity for grade XII natural science students of Nasrani 1 senior high school Medan.