Analysis of Scientific Literacy in Disaster Mitigation at SMAN 1 Kotaagung: Sustainability Measure

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze students’ scientific literacy abilities at SMAN 1 Kotaagung in the aspects of content, process and context. The research method used is quantitative descriptive by measuring students’ scientific literacy abilities using the instrument in this research, which is a question of scientific literacy abilities which was created referring to PISA 2015, using biodiversity material combined with disaster mitigation material. Apart from that, this research also used an interview instrument as a supporting instrument for the test questions which were given as many as 10 questions which had previously been validated by lecturers who were experts in their fields. The results obtained are the percentage per indicator of scientific literacy questions and the percentage of the total number obtained in each school. The sample used was at SMAN 1 Kotaagung school (30 students). The sample chosen was a class that had studied material in the biodiversity chapter. At SMAN 1 Kotaagung, the average achievement of scientific literacy in the content aspect was 51.77% in the “very poor” category, in the process aspect 53.20% in the “very poor” category and in the context aspect 40% in the “very poor” category overall. An average of 48.32% where this achievement is considered “very low”.