Android-based application to evaluate gender differences in private high schools

Abstract

Whenever a person has an idea in his mind but the idea is intuitively unacceptable, he substitutes his idea which are intuitively more effective and efficient. The substitutes are called intuitive models. The approach used in this study is the qualitative approach with a type of explorative-descriptive. The purpose of this study is to describe the intuition of private vocational students in terms of gender where the students’ intuition is an intuitive model of students in solving mathematical problems with the PISA model. The subjects are mechanical engineering student in class XI of vocational high school and included high ability students in their class This research using task-based interviews and result of student. Based on the result of the research in using intuition models, female student more uses models than male student. Female student uses trial and error to stimulate ideas from understanding problem to finding solution while male student only writes important point for him and not easy to communicate his ideas. It’s found that intuition can occur anywhere in solving problems. The product results from intuition in the form of ideas obtained by intuition models which function as a means to make it easier for someone to understand objects or concepts that are intuitively difficult.