The profile of students’ views of nature of science (NOS) in Junior High School of Yogyakarta city

Abstract

Scientific literacy has become a contentious issue for the science education community, and It has been the main goal of science education reform in various countries in this century. One of the vital components in science literacy is the understanding of Nature of Science (NOS). This research report about the profile of junior high school students’ views of Nature of Science (NoS). It was employed by descriptive survey research design. The participants were 186 students of 8th in the academic year 2017-2018. Purposive sampling techniques were performed to select the junior high school as participants. The students were from six schools that were divided into three groups depending on the favorite level of junior high school based on the interest of registrant, the input (the value of accepting new students) and the output (the value of National Examination) they had. They were divided into high, medium, and low level based on the favorite rank of school. The instrument for collecting data was questionnaire of NOS. Descriptive quantitative and inferential statistic were employed to analyses of the data. The results indicated that most of the students in junior high school in Yogyakarta had good category for attitude, very less (poor) understanding for the process, and less understanding for product aspects of NOS. There is a strong relationship between the understanding of NOS and the school favorite rank.