Gender Differences: Students' science process skills based on gender homogeneous class

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to describe the ability of students' science process skills based on indicators, and to find out whether there were differences in students' science process skills based on gender homogeneous classes. This study was  qualitative research with descriptive and inferential statistical approaches. Data collection was conducted at SMPN 9 Muaro Jambi with a population of all eighth grade students, and the research sample was 60 students consisting of 28 male students and 32 female students from 2 sample classes. The instrument used in this study was a science process skill observation sheet. The data processing technique used was descriptive statistics. The results show that, first, the science process skills of male and female students are in the good category based on basic and integrated science process skills indicated by the score of higher than  50% on each indicator. Secondly, there were also no differences in the science process skills between male students and and female students.