Open AccessAn analysis of mathematical literacy of state junior high school students in Kupang
Author(s) -
Daniel W. Fointuna,
Agapitus Hendrikus Kaluge,
Aloysius Joakim Fernandez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1422/1/012025
Subject(s) - ninth , mathematics education , indonesian , cluster sampling , literacy , psychology , mathematics , medical education , pedagogy , sociology , population , medicine , demography , linguistics , philosophy , physics , acoustics
This survey was conducted to describe the mathematical literacy of state junior high school students in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara province. Not only was it done due to the low performances of Indonesian 15-year-old students in PISA but also since there was not any research studies that had been done before to map the mathematical literacy of 15-year-old students in Kupang. This study used two-stage cluster randomized sampling to choose six-state junior high schools representing six sub-districts around Kupang. A total of 377 ninth-grade students were selected to become the respondents in this survey. They were tested using fifteen mathematical literacy problems directly adopted from PISA 2012 and some development researches items. The results showed that the mathematical literacy of state junior high school students in Kupang generally was in a low category. When we looked into three process domains as well as four content domains, the math literacy of students was also classified as either a low or a very-low-category. The results of this study can provide valid and actual data for society and the government regarding the math literacy of students in Kupang.