Correlation between Teacher Guidance and Parent with Chemical Literation Ability of Junior High School Student

The ability of chemical literacy of junior high school students needs to get better attention so that they can easily understand chemistry lessons at the next level. Teachers and parents should be involved in guiding students to learn so that their understanding structures are well organized and clear. This research was quantitative descriptive study that aims to find out the chemical literacy ability, form of teacher and parent guidance, correlation between teacher and parent guidance on literacy chemical of student of grade VIII on atomic, ionic, and molecular topic. The research sample of 234 students was taken by simple random for four schools at South Sulawesi. The design of this study is a survey research with the study population was all grade VIII junior high school students in South Sulawesi. The ability of chemical literacy tested consists of the ability to understand the question methods that lead to scientific knowledge and the ability to organize, analyze and interpret quantitative data and scientific information with a total of 10 indicators. The instruments used included a questionnaire, and multiple choices test forms of 10 items that had been tested for validity and reliability. The provision of questionnaires aims to determine the role of teachers in the learning process at school and the role of parents in guiding students at home. The test is used to determine the literacy ability of students. Data were analyzed using descriptive quantitative statistics. The results of the data analysis found that average of the chemical literacy ability of junior high school students in South Sulawesi is in the category. The average correlation between teacher guidance with students were high category, and the average correlation between parent guidance with students were enough category