Students' Energy Awareness Profile of High, Mid, and Low Levels Junior High School Student in Sragen

Abstract

Energy awareness needs to be owned by students because environmental and energy problems in the 21st century become more complicated. This research was conducted to describe the profile of students' energy awareness. The descriptive analysis method was used as the research method. Eighty-four junior high school students in Sragen Regency were selected as the subject. The subjects were selected through purposive sampling technique. The energy awareness instrument was adapted from Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) by National Science Foundation and modified based on energy awareness model from Muhammad G. Hassan which included Environmental Concern, Visibility of Consumption, and Educational aspects. The results showed that the students' energy awareness on visibility consumption was 52.72% with enough category acquisition while 23.76% on the environmental concern and 21.41% on the education aspects indicate quite low criteria. Based on the results, it can be concluded the students' energy awareness in Sragen was relatively low, so need to be improved.