<![CDATA[Creativity is an aspect that is mandated by law and become essential to the development of a nation in order to compete with other nations. The study aimed at examining the correlation between prior knowledge with creative thinking ability of students grade XI IPA at Public Senior high school in entire Takalar district. This study was an ex post facto research. The population was the entire students of grade XI IPA at public senior high school in the entire Takalar which consist of 39 classes with 1537 people. Sample was taken by employing stratified purposive random technique and obtained grade XI IPA 1 students in SMAN 1 Takalar, SMAN 3 Takalar, SMAN 1 Polongbangkeng Selatan, and SMAN 1 Polongbangkeng Utara with 134 students. The instrument of the study used test of prior knowledge consisting of 16 items (α = 0.883) and test of verbal creativity that consist of 18 items (α = 0.808). by using correlation and simple regression analysis, study founded that coefficient correlation between these two variables is 0.619, p = 0.000 (p <0.05). This value indicated that there was correlation between prior knowledge with creative thinking ability in chemistry and the correlation between the two variables is a positive correlation.]]>
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