PRELIMINARY STUDY ON DEVELOPING SCIENCE LITERACY TEST FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN INDONESIA
Abstract: The research aimed
to describe the science literacy of high school student tested by Nature of
Science Literacy Test (NOSLiT), which was developed by Carl J. Wenning. NOSLiT
is a test to measure science literacy, as a research instrument to identify
weaknesses of students’ understanding, and determine instrument effectiveness.
NOSLiT consists of 35 multiple choice questions with four alternative answers,
and true-false questions with two alternative answers. This study was begun
with translating the original NOSLiT into Indonesian language, and validated
the translated version by expert validators. Second, selected the respondents,
consisted of 225 students from ten public and private high schools, i.e. 30
students of SMAN 1Ngawi, 25 students of SMAN 2 Ngawi, 26 students MAN Ngawi, 21
students of SMAN Kwadungan, 25students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Ngawi, 17 students
of SMA Karya Pembangunan Paron, 29 students of SMAN 1 Madiun, 18 students of
SMAN 3 Madiun, 23 students of SMAN 1 Nglames, and 11 students of SMA Cokro
Aminoto Madiun. The result showed that the average score of NOSLiT test of
grader X was 16.86; grader XI was 15.78; and grader XII was 16.40. Score of
student’s science literacy was quite low, or had not achieved at least 50% of
total score, which put students into moderate literacy.
Author: Ade Intan Permata
Ariyanti, Murni Ramli, Baskoro Adi Prayitno
Journal Code: jppendidikangg160259
