The environmental attitude of the prospective biology teachers in Indonesia

Abstract

Environmental attitude should be possessed by students as an effort to manage their relationship with environmental problems. However, there has never been any study on the environmental attitudes of prospective biology teachers in Indonesia. This study aims to discover the environmental attitude of the prospective science teachers throughout Indonesia. This cross-sectional survey study analyzes the aspects of gender, grade point average (GPA), college status, and study status which are positioned as the character of the respondent whose impact on the students’ environmental attitudes are analyzed in this study. The target population size of this study is 1300 people. Thus, based on Krejcie and Morgan Table, the minimum sample size with a confidence level of 95% and margin error of 5% is 1235 students. The data collection instrument used in this study is the Environmental Attitude Inventory/EAI questionnaire which has been validated by bilingual experts and transformed into an online questionnaire by means of Google Form. SPSS software was used to examine the data. The results indicate that there is no significant difference in EA scores based on gender, GPA factor, and university status background. The difference in EA scores is affected by whether or not students have taken courses related to the environment ownership. The researchers believe that it is critical to ensure that the course materials concerning environmental education are properly planned and implemented. Courses should be supplemented with themes on environmental issues ranging from local to global scope.

Spirituality-based environmental literacy among prospective biology teacher in Indonesia: Analysis based on gender, accreditation, and semester-level aspects

“…We set inclusion criteria referring to previous research, i.e that respondents were students who were prospective biology teachers (from the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, College of Teacher Training and Education, Faculty of Education, or Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences), come from universities in Indonesia, are Indonesian citizens, are still active students, and are willing and aware to be involved as respondents. We also set exclusion criteria, i.e students from diploma, vocational, and postgraduate programs; not from an education study program, dropped out, and not completely fill in the requested data (Rahardjanto et al, 2022).…”

“Let’s transform!”: A systematic literature review of science learning in COVID-19 pandemic era

“…The researchers used preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) model to conduct an inclusion and exclusion. This model referred to Gallagher et al (2016) and it was also used by Husamah et al (2022). The following crucial points became the basis of inclusion criteria that used in this SLR, namely…”

“…This includes how the scientific community generates scientific information, how the media repackages and distributes information, and how individuals discover and form opinions about that information (Howell & Brossard, 2021). There are many societal problems that science can address in the current context, one of the most pressing of which is environmental issues (Angreani et al, 2022;Hermawan et al, 2022;Husamah et al, 2022b;Rahardjanto et al, 2022).…”

Spirituality-based action competence for sustainability among prospective biology teacher in Indonesia

“…(Karyadi, 2016), including religious values (Parker, 2017). Two previous studies have been carried out regarding the abilities of prospective biology teachers in universities in Indonesia, namely environmental attitude (Rahardjanto et al, 2022) and spirituality-based environmental literacy (Husamah, Rahardjanto, et al, 2023). Based on these studies, we conclude that research focused on student teachers is still rarely conducted, especially in Indonesia (as a whole).…”