Self-perceived action competence for sustainability of Indonesian prospective biology teachers

This study was aimed to analyze the Self-Perceived Action Competence for Sustainability (SPACS) of Indonesian biology teacher candidates. This study was a cross-sectional sur-vey. The data collection process is carried out in June-August 2022. The target respond-ents are students of education study programs in the field of biology from various institu-tions in Indonesia. Gender, GPA, college status, and college status are positioned as re-spondents' characters whose impact on students' SPACS is analyzed in this study. The tar-get population size for this survey is 1300 people, the minimum sample size with 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error is 1235 students. The inclusion criteria of re-spondents in this study were prospective biology teacher students, came from universities in Indonesia, Indonesian citizens, still active as students, and voluntarily wanted to be in-volved as research respondent. To determine the effect of gender, university status, and student status on SPACS, the Mann Whitney test was carried out. On the other hand, to de-termine the effect of GPA on SPACS, the Kruskal-Wallis test was carried out. The results show significant differences occur in the variables that have a p-value (Sig. value) below 0.05. It can be concluded that significant differences in SPACS scores occur in gender dif-ferences to KAP, differences in university status to COI and WTA, and differences in study status to COI and WTA.