Profiles of Environmental Literacy of Senior High School Students

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the environmental literacy of high school students in Bali Province, Indonesia. For that reason, the study conducted was survey research. The population of the study was high school students in the Bali Province, Indonesia. Population of the study was 40.608 students. Samples were drawn by a multistage random sampling technique. Each district was chosen 50 students randomly. Thus, there were a total of 450 students as research samples. The research samples consisted of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth-grade students, each of which amounted to 131, 263, and 56 people and the number of male and female students was 151 and 299 people, respectively. Students' environmental literacy data were collected with an environmental literacy inventory developed by researchers. This inventory consisted of five dimensions, including knowledge (15 items), concern (15 items), sensitivity (16 items), attitude (9 items), and behavior (8 items) towards the environment. Inventory is created in Google forms and circulated online. The data obtained in this study were analyzed by calculating the average score of environmental literacy and then changed from a scale of 5 to a scale of 100, then grouped into the categories of very low (0 - 20%), low (21 - 40%), moderate (41 - 60%), high (61 - 80%), and very high (81 - 100%). The results showed that overall the environmental literacy of students was classified as a high category. However, the dimension of knowledge was in the medium category, while the other dimensions were in the high category.