Evaluation of Student’s Attitude Toward Science in Indonesia

Purpose: Attitude is expression or response of students regarding learning. Attitudes in the form of expressions of like, dislike or rejecting an object. The purpose of this research is to describe the attitudes of students towards the three attitude indicators at middle school in Jambi Province Indonesia. Research Methods: Type of research is survey research. The research instrument was in the form of a questionnaire consisting of three indicators with 27 statements and also interviews. The number of students in research samples is 2,815 which are middle school students in Jambi Province, Indonesia Regency. Results: The results of research on three dominant attitude indicators are in the good category. Adoption of scientific attitudes shows a good category with a percentage of 58.4%. The pleasure of learning science is categorized as good with a percentage of 66.3%. Whereas a career in science is categorized as sufficient with a percentage of 41.8%.