Early geoscience literacy skills assessment based on TIMSS’S view

The importance of geoscience literacy, encourages young generation to have good geoscience literacy skill. The purpose of this research was to describe the early geoscience literacy skills of junior high school students. This type of research is descriptive quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 360 junior high school students in the Kediri Residency who were randomly selected, with reference to having studied the material of the earth’s layer structure and its dynamics. The initial ability of geoscience literacy is measured through test instruments and questionnaires. The test instrument consists of 10 multiple choice questions which are adapted from TIMSS questions in the Earth Science sub- discussion. The results showed that the geoscience literacy skills of junior high school students in Kediri Residency with an average score of 47.44% or classified as very low. Viewed from the content domain, the skills of geoscience literacy is very low, especially in indicators describe the process of the hydrological cycle and recognize the sun as a source of energy for the hydrological cycle. Judging from the cognitive domain, students have very low scores and the lowest skills is the reasoning domain.