Effectiveness of edmodo to improve senior high school students’ creative thinking skills in momentum and impulse topics

Abstract

The study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of e-learning-based innovative learning set employing Edmodo to improve the senior high school student’s creative thinking in momentum and impulse learning material. It applied an experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design. The study was conducted in Integrated Senior High School Wira Bhakti Gorontalo by having 20 students of the class of X IPA 2 as respondents. It was a research and development type using research stages by Jerold F. Kemp consisting of determining general instructional goal, analyzing student’s characteristics, determining specific instructional goals, determining learning materials, determining the pre-test, determining teaching and learning strategies, media, and sources, coordinating the supporting facilities, and evaluating (post-test). The developed learning set was syllabus, lesson plan, learning material, student’s worksheet, and test of creative thinking ability as well as an appropriate assessment instrument. Data analysis result revealed that there was an improvement of student’s creative thinking ability proved by the average value of N-Gain for 0,70 in the high category. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that an e-learning-based innovative learning set employing Edmodo was effective to improve the senior high school student’s creative thinking in momentum and impulse learning material.