Profile of science communication competence of junior high school students on science lesson Tenten Hermawansyah(1*), Taufik Rahman(2), Sjaeful Anwar(3)
1*) Program Studi Pendidikan IPA, Sekolah Pascasarjana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
*tentenhermawansyah[at]student.upi.edu
2) Departemen Pendidikan Biologi, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
3) Departemen Pendidikan Kimia, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
Abstract
Communication skills are important part of the curriculum and education programs. This study aims to describe science communication competence of a junior high school student in Cianjur. This research uses a descriptive method. The data is analyzed quantitatively and presented in the form of percentage chart. The result of the science communication competence test of the students is low. Adressee-oriented communication competency reaches 44.97% and Subject-adequate communication reaches 19.85%. Overall students science communication competence is very low. There needs to be an improvement over it. One of the factors that cause the result is the lack of learning activities and teaching materials content that oriented to science communication. Researchers recommend improvements to learning activities and teaching materials that oriented to science communication competence.
Keywords: communication skill, science communication competence
