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Plant Awareness Profile of Junior High School Students by Grade Level and Gender

Indra Fardhani, Febyka Rahma Nurlaily, Husnun Nur Hanifah, Aisha Rahma Ifada, Khalifatulloh Fiel’ardh

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Lack of plant awareness is a phenomenon that can have a lasting negative impact on plants and the surrounding environment. Plants can be considered unimportant when someone is unaware of plants. This phenomenon is related to science learning at the junior high school level because it includes discussions about plants, in addition, science subjects can also increase Plant Awareness in students. Grade level and gender factors can affect the level of Plant Awareness of students, so this study aims to determine the profile of Plant Awareness of junior high school students at grade level and gender. The study population came from one of the junior high schools in Malang City with a research sample of 300 students. The data collection technique was by distributing questionnaires to students that could be accessed through Google Form. The results of the data obtained were subjected to statistical tests using IBM SPSS Statistics 27 in the form of normality tests, Kruskal Wallis advanced tests, and Dunn Post Hoc tests. The Post Hoc Dunn test aims to determine the location of significant differences in the sample. The results of this study indicate that junior high school students in the city have a fairly high level of Plant Awareness, except that the indicator of attention to plants is still low. Class 7 male have significant differences in interest and attitudes towards plants compared to other groups, so efforts are needed to increase students' attention to plants and increase interest and positive attitudes towards class 7 male.

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Attention; Average Value; Attitude; Interest; Knowledge; Plant Awareness

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