The profile of the scientific communication of the seventh-grade students

Abstract

Scientific communication plays a role in delivering concepts, ideas, opinions, the process of an activity, results, conclusions, and recommendations from the source of information to the recipient. This communication is needed by the graduates from the educational unit. Thus, the government also includes this competence as one of the graduate competency standards. This study aimed to determine the profile of the scientific communication of the 7th grade students of junior high schools (SMP). The type of this research is qualitative research. The data were collected using questionnaires. The results showed that there were 8 students with excellent category, 5 students with good category, and 19 students with adequate category of scientific communication. This research can be used as a reference by the teacher to find out the profile of the scientific communication so that efforts can be made to improve scientific communication if it is still low.