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Research Paper | Ecology | Indonesia | Volume 2 Issue 5, May 2013

Basic Natural Sciences Contribution for Scientific Attitude Development and Values of Life

Bibin Rubini | Liliasari

Abstract: Science education aimed at concepts achievement and science process skills. Moreover, science education is also aimed at scientific attitudes and positive values inherent in science learning. Based on deeply observation, it was shown that basic science class in one of university in Indonesia still neglected this. The lecture was oriented only to concepts understanding. The research is aimed to develop the learning-model, which enable to develop students scientific attitude in addition to concept understanding and process skills. After one semester model implementation, assessment on scientific attitude has been done. The research methods was an analytical-descriptive and the subjects were two classes of non-science students who are following the basic science lectures (accounting students and prospective English teachers) from private university in Bogor. The result showed that students scientific attitude and positive values can be developed through implementing the multi models of learning, which placed student as a focus of learning. By the research it was also showed that increase occurred gradually.

Keywords: scientific attitude, value, teaching learning model

Edition: Volume 2 Issue 5, May 2013,

Pages: 465 - 468