Abstract
Secondary school science educators need to have good scientific literacy and critical thinking skills, so that they have sufficient competency to teach students to be able to compete in the current and future information and globalization. The purpose of this research was to determine the profile of scientific literacy and critical thinking skills of science educators. The subjects of this study were secondary school science educators who were still actively carrying out their professional duties. This study uses descriptive research methods. The instrument of data collection consists of scientific literacy instruments and instruments of critical thinking skills. The results of the study show that the science literacy profile of science educators is on average categorized as sufficient. The profile of the science literacy skills of junior high school educators is categorized as 33.33% in the good group, 16.67% in the sufficient category, and 50% in the less category. Profile of the average critical thinking skills of science educators in the medium category. Science educators who have high critical thinking skills are 32%, those with moderate critical thinking skills are 32%, and those who have low critical thinking skills are 36%.Keywords: Literacy Science, Critical Thinking, Science Educators.
Highlights
Dkk (2014), mengutip pernyataan kementerian pendidikannya (2008) sebagai berikut: Science is a key aspect of culture in the modern knowledge-based society
Many countries have prioritized the development of cognitive science for their people
Science plays a very important role in present and future society in that it is associated with everyone in their everyday life and work, including technologies, equipment, and products that are being used to facilitate human life and work. All these are the result of the range of sciences in combination with creativity and other disciplines
Summary
Dkk (2014), mengutip pernyataan kementerian pendidikannya (2008) sebagai berikut: Science is a key aspect of culture in the modern knowledge-based society. Melalui pembelajaran IPA SMP para pendidik dapat mengembangkan keterampilan literasi sains dan keterampilan berpikir kritis peserta didik.
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