Science Process of Environmental Conservation: A Cross National Study of Thai and Indonesian Pre-service Science Teachers

This study aimed to preliminary study science process of novice science teacher students on environmental conservation based on localwisdom. Participants were 95 novicescience teachers from Thailand and 71 from Indonesia. Data were collected throughscientific literacy questionnaire on Baduy’s society. Percentage, mean,standard deviation, and non-parametric statistics were used. Findings showedthat Thai teacherstudents had mean score of science process higher than Indonesian teacherstudents at 0.05 level of statistics. Science process on environmentalconservation need to be implemented in teacher students due to it can make themto meet real science.