Analyzing senior high school students’ view of nature of science and technology (VNOST)

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze senior high school students’ view of Nature of Science and Technology. There were 25 senior high school students participated in this study. The instruments used to collect data was a VNOST questionnaire consisting of eight multiple-choice questions. The questionnaire covered four aspects of VNOST, namely the definitions, epistemology, internal and external sociology of science and technology. Students ‘responses were analyzed using a frequency distribution for the characterization of students’ view trends. The results showed that most of the students ‘answers belonged to the Has Merit category, which was 46.5% but there were still few students who had a realistic view of 30% and 23.5% of the students’ answers still included the Naïve category. This study shows that generally senior high school students did not yet employ a proper view of the nature of science and technology.