Scientific Literacy Among Junior High School Students in Different Curriculum

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10.2991/icems-17.2018.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

indonesia’s curriculum, scientific literacy, reproduction

Abstract

Indonesia has applied two curricula, namely the former curriculum (2006 ??" best known as School-Based Curriculum) and the new curriculum (2013 ??" best known as Content Standard Curriculum) simultaneously since 2014-2017. This study is aimed to determine the student’s Scientific literacy on both curricula. The study used survey method which involved 278 students of grade 9th in South Jakarta. Samples were selected by stratified random sampling, including public junior high schools and also madrasah (Islamic junior high school) in upper, middle and lower level. The instrument of TIMSS (Trend International Mathematics Science Study) was adopted and focused on Biology especially reproduction concept. The result showed there was no significant difference in students’ scientific literacy on 2006 and 2013 curriculum (Sig 0.236). The scientific literacy was also not known by gender and types of school. Scientific literacy correlates significantly with the students' interest in biology and reproduction.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanti Herlanti
AU  - Ahmad Soleh
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Scientific Literacy Among Junior High School Students in Different Curriculum
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education in Muslim Society (ICEMS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 52
EP  - 56
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icems-17.2018.11
DO  - 10.2991/icems-17.2018.11
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