Junior high school students’ creative thinking skills: A gender-based in the era of a Covid-19 pandemic

Creative thinking skills are highly essential in this globalization era and become one of the 21st-century learning skills that must be integrated into learning. In addition, the era of a covid-19 pandemic encourages all people including the students to think creatively especially in completing distance learning. This study aims to reveal the students’ creative thinking skills who are engaged in distance learning based on their gender. The subjects of the study were 32 students. Particularly, 15 male students and 17 female students. This study employed qualitative research. The research instrument was in the form of creative thinking questions. Then, the test scores were analyzed quantitatively. This was to obtain the result score on students’ creative thinking skills. The results showed an insignificant difference between the score of students’ creative thinking skills in male and female. Each gender (male and female) got an average score of 31.94 and 40.56. However, both were considered in the low category of creative thinking. This indicates the need to improve creative thinking skills training in distance learning.