Clustering of Student Perceptions on Developing a Physics Laboratory Based on Information Technology and Local Wisdom

Distance education has been driven by the Covid-19 outbreak on an unprecedented scale. This condition presents its own challenges for learning related to experiments such as physics. Based on these conditions, a physics laboratory based on information technology and local wisdom will be developed which can be an alternative for learning physics with experiments that can be done at home. For this reason, students' perceptions of the use of laboratories and information technology in learning physics and the development of physics laboratories based on information technology and local wisdom are clustered using the K mean algorithm. Research questionnaires were conducted on 211 first year students at Duta Bangsa University who took physics courses. The results showed that there were 3 clusters produced that correlated with students' perceptions of being neutral, agreeing, and strongly agreeing. Based on the results of the cluster, 101 students (45.70%) strongly agree, 78 students (35.29^%) agree, and 42 students (19.01^%) are neutral in using laboratories and information technology in learning physics. In addition, 103 students (46.61^%) agreed, 62 students (28.05%) were neutral, and 56 students (25.34^%) agreed to develop a physics laboratory based on information technology and local wisdom. further research in the development of a physics laboratory based on information technology and local wisdom.