Scientific literacy of vocational school students in building construction

Abstract

This study aims to determine the real condition of the competitiveness literacy ability of vocational school students in building construction. The study was conducted from January to February 2020. This research is basic research with a research design referring to a qualitative approach to the type of phenomenology in which the research subjects are vocational students in the competence of Construction and Property expertise in Jakarta and Bogor. The results of the study concluded that most of the tenth-grade students of vocational school did not have good scientific literacy and at the same time confirmed the 2018 PISA report. The results of this study will serve as the basis for an analysis of the literacy skills of vocational school students in the building construction, the quality of existing scientific literacy instruments and the development of scientific literacy instruments.