The Relationship between Curiosity and Reading Comprehension Ability with Science Literacy in High School Students

Abstract

Science plays an essential role in the life of modern society to fulfill their needs. Scientific literacy is an ability that must be possessed to think logically, critically, and creatively; to solve problems, master technology, and be adaptive to changes and developments of the times. Curiosity about science will support one’s scientific literacy. Knowledge can be obtained in various ways, one of which is through the reading process. Good reading skills will support someone to understand science. This study aims to determine the relationship between curiosity and reading comprehension in high school students’ scientific literacy. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 98 Jakarta in the first semester of the 2019/2020 academic year, using the correlational method. Data were analyzed by means of multiple correlation significance tests. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between curiosity and scientific literacy, a significant positive relationship between reading comprehension and scientific literacy, and a significant positive relationship between curiosity and scientific literacy. This shows that higher student’s curiosity and reading comprehension ability resulted in higher student’s scientific literacy ability.