The Development of Civic Education Scientific Literacy on Improving the Students’ Quality of Scientific Work in Higher Education

Abstract

The background of research by the amount of research produced by students is not balanced with good quality research measurement. Research topics in students' scientific work are often repetitive and even have so much similarity values between one another. Even the topic is already looking obsolete and has no novelty/innovation value in it. One effort that can be done to minimize the symptoms of plagiarism and repetitive topics, it is necessary to mapping the topic of scientific work and methodology to help the birth of student research results in the form of articles published in reputable scientific journals. The purpose of this study is to describe the mapping of the quality of scientific work of postgraduate students of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Research method: The research approach used is a quantitative approach to survey method. Research subjects are Civic experts, lecturers, and students. The result of the research shows that: 1) Mastery of students' ability in preparing scientific works is categorized as ‘Good Enough’ so that there are some indicators that need to be re-developed their ability in preparing scientific papers both thesis and dissertation; 2) The research topics that become the main reference can be grouped into six dimensions: (a) curricular dimension; (b) Cultural social dimension; (c) The dimensions of Civics; (d) Analysis of Civic Implementation; (e) Character Analysis of Learners, and (f) Analysis of Professional Teacher Development.