ANALISIS HAKIKAT SAINS (NATURE OF SCIENCE) MAHASISWA BARU PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BIOLOGI DI UNIVERSITAS BORNEO TARAKAN
Nature of science is the knowledge that refers to the science epistemology (method), process, value, and belief that is attached to the development of scientific knowledge and about how to deal with and solve scientific problems wisely. This research has a purpose to find out about the nature of scientific knowledge of new student batch 2021 from the Biology Education Program Study at Borneo Tarakan University. This type of research is descriptive with the qualitative method. The data collection technique is done by quota sampling technique, with a number of samples of as many as 48 students from the whole population, about 59 students. This research instrument is VNOS form B, which consists of test questions I and test questions II related to the nature of science that consists of six question items that represent every aspect of the nature of science, such as Tentative, Empiris Base, Theory And Law, Social And Culture, Creativity, and also Observation And Inference. The percentage category of this research belongs to the very low category with the value around 36%, in the low category with the value around 36-51%, in the well-enough category with the value around 52-76%, in the good category with the value around 68-83%, and the excellent category with the value around 80-100%. The result of this research shows that the understanding level of nature of the science of new students batch 2021 from Biology Education Program Study in Borneo Tarakan University is belonging to the low category. The percentage result of the understanding level of students’ answers about the nature of science for test questions I is about 50%, while the percentage result for test questions II is about 48%.