ABSTRACT
Education plays a vital role in knowledge achievement to intervene learners’ attitude, particularly in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. This research aims at describing students’ knowledge and attitude levels toward COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. The data from this research were collected between March 2020 and April 2020. Malang was the chosen location, which is one of the education cities that was declared a red zone during the pandemic. The respondents were 555 students from one of the private universities in Malang who were studying exact science, social humanity science, as well as biology at the time when research was being conducted. The questionnaire used to gain the data was divided into five parts, i.e., 1) respondents’ identity profile, 2) information attaining time, 3) the trust level toward information source, 4) knowledge level, and 5) attitude level. ANOVA was used to analyze the effect of science clusters on students’ knowledge and attitude levels toward COVID-19. The results implied that science clusters had significant effect on knowledge and attitude levels. Moreover, majority of students possessed high-level knowledge about COVID-19 as well as had positive attitude toward health authority in gaining COVID-19-related information. Thus, it was suggested to promote more massive information about COVID-19 to the wider society to get a better understanding about the pandemic.
