The Analysis of High School Students' Science Literacy Based on Nature of Science Literacy Test (NOSLiT)

Abstract

Nature of Science Literacy Test (NOSLiT) is an instrument to measure students' understanding on scientific facts so they fulfilled the success of science literacy in high school students. The purpose of this research was to find out students' science literacy based on NOSLiT instruments. The method used for this research is descriptive qualitative and descriptive quantitative. This research samples were 29 students of 10st grade drawn from one public school in Karanganyar Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The result showed that majority of the students have reached the science literacy while few of them have not fulfilled the requirements yet. Students have fulfilled frameworks such as science nomenclature, experimental ability and basic observation, scientific postulate, and rules of scientific evidence in such a large number. While frameworks such as scientific disposition and major misconception about science were still in small number. Science literacy values familiarity as well. Students taken as samples for this research were not really familiar with the type of questions asked during the science literacy test. Thus, their result was still below the average students in United States. The average of science literacy for student in X Science 4 with NOSLiT instrument is 57.14%.