THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ATTITUDES AND DISCIPLINE TOWARD SCIENCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL

Abstract : The purpose of this research was to study the attitudes and discipline of secondary school students in Indonesia and its correlation between those two characters. This was a survey study with total sampling technique of 612 respondents. The grade of discipline and attitutes were measured according to Lickert scale, while the correlation between discipline and attitude was analyzed using Pearson correlation calculation. Based on the results of the study, both the attitude and the discipline of students towards science is good. This research also revealed a significant positive correlation between students’ attitudes and discipline. Grade 7 th showing the strongest correlation (0.707), and it is decreasing by the grade, with the weakest was showed by grade 9 th (0.247). KeyWords: attitude towardsScience, discipline toward science, secondary school students