Analysis of scientific literacy-based junior high school physics teaching materials readability on students increasing scientific literacy skills

Abstract

The background of this study was the lack of scientific literacy skills of Indonesian students according to the research that have done by PISA in 2012. The preliminary shows that the average score of scientific literacy skills is 56,2. The aim of this study is to know the readability of scientific literacy-based physics teaching materials. The readability of teaching materials is divided into four chapter which in each chapter consist of characteristics from the aspect of scientific literacy for example, science knowledge, investigation of the nature of science, science as a way of thinking, and interaction between science, technology and society. One shot experimental design has been used as the method of this study. The data is obtained through scientific literacy skill test and cloze procedure test of teaching materials on second year junior high school students. Narrow test shows that the percentage of teaching materials readability is 67,5% and wide test shows that the percentage of teaching materials readability is 71.87%. It is implied from this result that the scientific literacy-based physics teaching material has high level of readability.