The Analysis of Pre-Service Physics Teachers in Scientific Literacy: Focus on the Competence and Knowledge Aspects

Agus Pahrudin ,E Triyana ,Yuvita Oktarisa ,İrwandani Irwandani ,Chairul Anwar

doi:10.15294/jpii.v8i1.15728

Abstract

The role of scientific and technological knowledge is needed to compete in the era of industrial revolution 4.0. One of the roles of scientific knowledge is by analyzing the scientific literacy ability of pre-service physics teachers. This research aims to find out how far the achievement of scientific literacy possesses by current pre-service physics teachers. The measurement of scientific literacy encompasses two aspects, namely, competence and knowledge aspects. The subjects of this research were thirty pre-service physics teachers from Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan Lampung (State Islamic University Raden Intan Lampung) selected by using purposive sampling. The research instrument used in this research was a test of scientific literacy ability. The data analysis techniques used consisted of data reduction, data display, and verification. The result of the study indicated that some indicators of scientific literacy skills need to be improved. The results showed that there were differences in the achievement of literacy skills in each indicator. In the aspect of competence, the indicator of Indicating Scientific Issues aspects of competence covers identifying issues scientifically (poor), explaining phenomena scientifically (good), using scientific evidence (poor). The aspects of knowledge: content Knowledge (good), procedural knowledge (poor), epistemic knowledge (moderate). Overall the scientific literacy ability of the pre-service physics teachers has not shown satisfying results. It can be concluded that pre-service physics teachersâ€™ literacy ability should be improved. A special strategy is needed that can improve the scientific literacy skills of prospective physics teachers so that the students who will teach in the future also could have good scientific literacy skills.

Highlights

We are facing we have entered an era of digitalization known as the industrial revolution 4.0 (Aldianto et al, 2018; Anwar et al, 2018; Matsun et al, 2018; Subekti et al, 2018)
This research employed a qualitative descriptive method which aimed at describing the scientific literacy ability of pre-service physics teachers based on the aspects of competence and knowledge
The instrument used to determine the scientific literacy ability of pre-service physics teacher on the aspects of competence and knowledge was in the form of scientific literacy ability test

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Introduction

We are facing we have entered an era of digitalization known as the industrial revolution 4.0 (Aldianto et al, 2018; Anwar et al, 2018; Matsun et al, 2018; Subekti et al, 2018). In order to remain in the global competition, each person is required to have superior competencies and skills (Yani et al, 2018). The role of scientific and technological knowledge is needed in this global era in order to improve the competitiveness and prosperity of a nation in the international environment (Matsun et al, 2018; Ratnasari et al, 2018) because science is the key to the development of Science and Technology (Choerunnisa et al, 2017).

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