Universal Journal of Educational Research 8(4): 1394-1403, 2020 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2020.080432 Review of Educational Psychology: Attitudes towards Physics Astalini, Darmaji, Dwi Agus Kurniawan * , Tari Okta Puspitasari, Artha Lumbantoruan, Yolanda Eka Putri, Nirmala Sari Faculty of Teaching and Education, Universitas Jambi, Indonesia Received December 23, 2019; Revised January 21, 2020; Accepted February 28, 2020 Copyright©2020 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract The purpose of this research is to find out the comparison of students' attitudes towards physics and the results of the student attitudes description by using indicators of scientist normality, scientific attitudes adoption and a career interest in physics at SMA Ferdy Ferry Putra Kota Jambi and SMAN 6 Batang Hari. This type of research is quantitative using survey research procedures where the instruments used are questionnaires. The subjects of this study were 281 students consisting of 125 students from SMA Ferdy Ferry Putra Kota Jambi and 156 students from SMAN 6 Batang Hari. Quantitative data analysis techniques use descriptive and inferential statistics. The results are indicator of the scientists normality towards physics which has differences in each school, which amounted to 65.6% and 44.9% with sufficient and good categories. For the indicator of the most dominant scientific attitudes adoption is categorized as good with a percentage of 62.4% and 64.1%, respectively. Then the indicators of career interest in physics also have similarities in each school, namely sufficient categories with a percentage of 68% and 66%. Based on these results, students at SMA Ferdy Ferry Putra Kota Jambi have sufficient attitudes towards learning physics. While at SMAN 6 Batang Hari students have good attitudes towards learning physics. Keywords Attitudes, Physics, Student, Comparison 1. Introduction Education is an effort made to grow and develop the potential of human resources, especially students by guiding and facilitating their learning activities. Education plays an important role in improving the quality of human life [1]; [2]. One level of education that has high quality and high competitiveness human resources is the Senior High School. As for the education in Indonesia, there are several levels. One of them is Senior High School level. Senior High school is an educational institution that organizes learning, teaching activities, receives and gives lessons according to levels, majors and so on, which have supporting elements such as facilities, infrastructure and according to applicable rules with the function to provide teaching for students so that they become individuals which is useful for himself and his environment [3]. This goal can be achieved if supported by several influencing factors such as the quality of teaching, the teaching methods used, teaching materials used, preparation of materials, and curriculum used. Achieving the potential of education can be obtained through an educational institution, one of them is Senior High School. At these levels students have begun to gradually be able to control themselves in thinking scientifically. As a development of the students mindset, the related subjects are Physics. The ability of logic and basic calculations in mathematics is needed in learning physics so that understanding from the initial material to the final material can connect to one another [4]. Meanwhile according to, [5] physics subjects are considered important to be taught as subjects because physics is a vehicle to grow thinking skills that are useful for solving problems in daily life and equip students with knowledge, understanding and a number of abilities that constitute requirements for entering a higher level of education. In fact, physics is one of the subjects that is considered heavy and is avoided by some students because it requires perseverance, thoroughness and lots of practice [2]. One of the basic weaknesses is the low ability to think analytically about a problem. The success of teaching and learning activities in physics learning can be measured by the success of students who take part in learning activities [6]. One of the low physics learning results is due to the tendency of lecturers to place more emphasis on mathematical aspects so that innovation is