The scientific literacy profile of senior high school student based on science competence dimension

Currently, literacy is defined as the ability to reason using language. Literacy is one of the crucial issues in education to face the challenges of technological breakthroughs developing rapidly in the 21st century. Literacy in Physics as one of the subjects in the science family can be measured through scientific literacy. Countries whose citizens have high scientific literacy can make appropriate science, technology, and social policies. In relation to scientific literacy, PISA focuses on several dimensions or areas of measurement. One of them is scientific competence. Through the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Indonesian government issued some regulations related to the government’s assessment standards by replacing the National Examination (UN) with the National Assessment (AN). Furthermore, in AN, students’ cognitive learning outcomes include reading literacy and numeracy as measured through the Minimum Competency Assessment (AKM). This research focuses on the students’ scientific literacy profile in terms of scientific competence dimensions. The study was conducted on students of class XI science SMA Negeri 1 Sendana in descriptive research with 69 students. This research was carried out in stages (1) providing scientific literacy questions at the SMA/MA level, which have been declared valid, (2) measuring the students’ scientific literacy through three indicators of the scientific competencies dimensions, and (3) determining the average proportion of scientific literacy for each indicator. The results showed that scientific literacy based on aspects of scientific competence consists of 3 indicators: explaining scientific phenomena scientifically, evaluating and designing scientific investigations, interpreting scientific data and evidence is in the very low category.