Identification of Knowledge Mitigation of Forest and Land Fire Disasters; A Preliminary Study for Management of Disaster Learning in Elementary School

Abstract

This study aims to identify knowledge of forest and land fire disaster mitigation. Knowledge of disaster mitigation in question is factual knowledge, conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and metacognitive knowledge. The research method uses descriptive quantitative. Research respondents were 99 elementary school students. The results of research on forest and land fire disaster mitigation knowledge on (1) factual knowledge aspects obtained an average score of 57.41 with a sufficient category; (2) aspects of conceptual knowledge gained an average score of 53.54 in the sufficient category; (3) aspects of procedural knowledge gained fewer categories with an average score of 42.09; (4) aspects of metacognitive knowledge fewer categories with an average score of 38.73. The conclusion of the research is the knowledge of forest fire, and land fire disaster mitigation students in elementary schools was identified in the fewer category with an average score of 49.19.