How do Students Deal with Socio-scientific Issues: A Development of Students’ Decision-Making Skills Instrument

Restu Utami; Anti Kolonial Prodjosantoso; Eli Rohaeti; Azlan Kamari

doi:10.21831/jpms.v12i1.75002

How do Students Deal with Socio-scientific Issues: A Development of Students’ Decision-Making Skills Instrument

Restu Utami, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Anti Kolonial Prodjosantoso, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Eli Rohaeti, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Azlan Kamari, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia

10.21831/jpms.v12i1.75002

Abstract

Decision-making skills is needed in dealing with socio-scientific issues (SSI) that is developing in society. Students need to learn to make appropriate judgments, so that they were not easily manipulated or biased towards science-related issue. This paper aims to analyze the validity and reliability of the decision-making skills instrument. The research respondents were 75 high school students (female = 52, male = 23) at Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta. The decision-making skills instrument consists of 5 items open-ended questionnaire. Respondents were determined using the random sampling method. The validity test results showed that all of 5 items developed were valid, with Pearson product moment values between 0.572 and 0.801. The reliability test results were valid for all 5 items, with a Cronbach's Alpha coefficient of 0.744. Therefore, it could be concluded that the instrument was valid and highly reliable to measure students’ decision-making skills.

Keywords

decision-making, instrument, reliability, socio-scientific issues, validity

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21831/jpms.v12i1.75002