Profile of high school students science literacy in east java

Abstract

Various efforts must be made by the government in the education sector in the 21st century and industrial era 4.0 so that students have the life skills needed is to implement integrated education starting from the family, school and community environment through literacy cultural habituation. Several studies have shown low attainment of scientific literacy. A high level of scientific literacy can improve the quality of education so that it can compete with other countries. This study aims to describe the level of scientific literacy of high school students in East Java. The method used in this research is descriptive quantitative. The data collection technique was in the form of a written test. The research variable is the science literacy ability of high school students in the content aspect. Samples were taken using purposive sampling. Overall, the average percentage of the results of high school students’ scientific literacy skills in East Java based on the aspect of science content is in the low category. The level of students’ understanding of basic science concepts is still low or weak, so that students are less able to apply and interpret data, even though the form of the problem is simple. The cause of the low ability of students is in expressing the content of the discourse given and interpreting the data in the form of pictures, tables, diagrams and other forms of presentation. In addition, there are limitations to the students’ ability to express thoughts in written form, reasoning skills, reading accuracy is still low, and students are not used to connecting information in the form of text and then expressing it in the form of new expressions to answer given test questions.