Comparative study between Indonesian and Thai Novice Science Teacher Students in Content of Science

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the Indonesian and Thai novice science teacher students in content of science on environmental conservation based on local wisdom of Baduy’s society. The subjects were 71 of Indonesian and 95 of Thai novice science teacher students. The results showed that mean score of Indonesian novice science teacher students had slightly better than those Thai novice science teacher students in content of science, but not significantly differences at .05 level of statistics. It can be concluded that there is no significantly differences between the average content of science between Indonesian and Thai novice science teacher students.

Keywords

• content of science,Indonesian,Thai,environmental conservation,local wisdom,Baduy’s Society

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