scholarly journals Analysis Of Question Papers In Engineering Courses With Respect To Hots (Higher Order Thinking Skills)

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sowmya Narayanan ◽  
M. Adithan

It is generally perceived that a substantial number of engineering faculty are still unaware of alternative educational methods, and many who are aware of them choose not to incorporate them into their approach to teaching. There are several likely reasons for this inertia, aside from the inevitable human resistance to change. The primary focus of imparting information is restricted to fulfilling the course requirements and, the upcoming term end examination. It is imperative to adopt a change from teaching to learning paradigm engaging the students in Higher Order Thinking Skills. Knowledge and technological advancements are changing the role of engineering and engineering faculty in the society. Engineering Education reforms need to focus on inductive teaching and stimulated learning. Students should be taught critical thinking skills and creative thinking skills to keep pace with the rapidly changing engineering profession. This paper reports the study done to test and explore the faculty awareness of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the cognitive domain and Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and to evaluate question papers set by engineering faculty with respect to HOTS as proposed by Bloom’s Taxonomy. Various active learning strategies to enhance critical thinking skills and creative thinking skills of the students are recommended for use by the faculty in their interactions with the students. 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatine Merieme BELARBI ◽  
Abdelkader BENSAFA

The Algerian English foreign language (EFL) baccalaureate is a high stake exam that assesses both students’ learning and their critical thinking skills. Thus, devising appropriate and effective exam questions may be a problematic issue for tests designers. Under the requirements of the current Algerian English curriculum, the exam questions must cover the lower and higher-order thinking skills of Bloom’s taxonomy. On this basis, this research paper seeks to investigate the effectiveness of the EFL baccalaureate exam papers, and aims to answer the research question: ‘To what extent does the Algerian EFL Baccalaureate exam paper cover the lower and higher-order thinking skills of Bloom’s taxonomy?’ This research is a descriptive content analysis; the researcher analyzed the exam questions of the Algerian EFL Baccalaureate under the cognitive domains of Bloom’s taxonomy. This study is significant as it helps tests’ designers to design practical EFL exams that develop students’ thinking skills and language competencies. The findings of this study revealed that the EFL baccalaureate exam does not establish the students’ higher-order thinking skills and does not assess their communicative abilities. Accordingly, some recommendations are suggested to hopefully help test designers to improve the quality of the EFL Baccalaureate questions.


Author(s):  
J. Junaidi ◽  
Yenita Roza ◽  
M. Maimunah

Pada abad 21 diperlukan keterampilan berpikir tingkat tinggi (HOTs) yang mencakup kemampuan berpikir kritis dan berpikir kreatif. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan interpretasi, analisis, inferensi, kelancaran dan orisinalitas siswa dalam menyelesaikan soal pola dan barisan bilangan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah deskriptif kualitatif dan subjek sebanyak 40 siswa yang terdiri 19 siswa SMPN 5 Bantan dan 21 Siswa MTS Al-Huda. Instrumen yang digunakan berupa (1) tes tertulis yang berorientasikan HOTs dan (2) pedoman wawancara.  Hasil tes menunjukkan rata-rata HOTs siswa SMPN 5 Bantan (49,34) dan MTS Al-Huda (45,12) berkategori cukup.  Skor tiap indikator HOTs untuk siswa SMPN 5 Bantan diketahui bahwa interpretasi= 48,68, analisis= 40,13, inferensi= 64,47, kelancaran= 52,68 dan orisinalitas= 40,79 sedangkan untuk siswa MTs Al-Huda adalah interpretasi= 61,18, analisis= 40,79, inferensi= 53,57, kelancaran= 38,16 dan orisinalitas= 45,24. Berdasarkan hasil wawancara juga diketahui bahwa rendahnya HOTs siswa dikarenakan siswa tidak terbiasa dalam menyelesaikan soal HOTs serta tidak tersedianya soal-soal HOTs yang secara khusus mengukur HOTs di sekolah, sehingga diharapkan adanya penelitian lebih lanjut mengenai soal-soal HOTs.Students' Thinking Ability in Solving HOTs Questions on Material Patterns and Rows of NumbersAbstractIn the 21st century, higher order thinking skills (HOTs) are needed which include critical thinking skills and creative thinking. The purpose of this study is to describe the students’ ability of interpretation, analysis, inference, fluency and originality in solving questions about patterns and rows of numbers. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative and as many as 40 students consisting of 19 students of SMPN 5 Bantan and 21 students of Al-Huda MTS. The instrument used in the form of (1) written tests oriented to HOTs and (2) interview guidelines. The test results showed the average level of SMPN 5 Bantan students’ HOTs (49.34) and MTS Al-Huda (45.12) was categorized as sufficient. The score of each indicator of HOTs for SMPN 5 Bantan students is known that interpretation= 48.68, analysis= 40.13, inference= 64.47, fluency= 52.68 and originality= 40.79 while for MTs Al-Huda students are interpretation= 61.18, analysis= 40.79, inference= 53.57, fluency= 38.16 and originality= 45.24. Based on the interview results it is also known that the low level of students’ HOTs is because students are not accustomed to solving HOTs questions and the unavailability of HOTs questions that specifically measure HOTs in schools, so it is hoped that further research on questions of HOTs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 342
Author(s):  
SITI HALIMAH

AbstractThe research’s context is that is new challenges for teachers in facing Era 5.0, the teachers must be to make new breakthroughs in designing innovative and interesting active learning. As educators in the era of society 5.0, teachers must have digital skills and creative thinking. Educators are also required must be to create innovative learning and dinamic. To realize the implementation of innovative and dynamic learning, one can implement a learning approach that can improve skills of critical thinking as name is the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) approach. The aims of this reseach is to discribe that in developing students' skillis of critical thinking in Islamic religious education (PAI) subjects, that is necessary to implement learning with the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) approach. This study is using the methods of qualitative method and that approach is used approach of descriptive. The locus of this study at SMAN 2 Pasuruan. That point data sources of the study are PAI teachers, students of X Bahasa, X IPS I and X MIPA I and the principal. The sources of others Data are books, journals, studi result and document as a previous research, documents for class X quiz questions, photos and audio. The Collection Data used the techniques of observation, interview, and documentation. The analysis data is used The technique of qualitative. The studi is outcoming about the implementation of the HOTS approach in PAI learning can be doing strat from making lesson plans, then implementing PAI learning by applying the HOTS approach and at the end of the learning implementation an evaluation is carried out to find out the results of the implementation of this HOTS approach. From the findings in the application of PAI learning using the HOTS approach, it is mapped into 3 parts, namely, the initial part, namely the teacher analyzing the learning method that will be used and the results can be concluded that class X students of SMA Negeri 2 Pasuruan have been able to improve their critical thinking skills, they can also solve problems such as in the topic of Behavioral Discipline. At the next stage, the teacher  must evaluate to  the method has aplicated in the class, for example, the PAI teacher gives negative statements that need to be corrected by students, then students describe ideas and input about these statements, for example, Discipline Attitudes and Attitudes Competing in doing good. In the final stage, the teacher manifests seeing the transformation of the behavior of Class X students after receiving PAI lessons.Keywords: HOTS Approach, Islamic Education Learning, Think Critical AbstrakLatar belakang penelitian ini adanya tantangan baru bagi guru dalam menghadapi Era 5.0, guru dituntut dapat membuat trobosan-trobosan baru dalam mendesain pembelajaran yang aktif inovatif dan menarik. Sebagai Tenaga Pendidik di era society 5.0, maka adanya guru harus memiliki digital’s skills dan creative thinking. Tenaga pendidik juga diharuskan mampu menciptakan pembalajaran yang inovatif dan dinamis. Untuk mewujudkan pelaksanaan pembelajaran yang inovatid dan dinamis dapat mengimplementasikan pendekatan pembelajaran yang dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis disebut pendekatan Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Tulisan ini menyajikan tentang sebuah teknik yang dapat digunakan oleh guru dalam upaya mengasah dan meningkatkan Critical Thinking Skills siswa pada mata pelajaran PAI ini dapat memanfaatkan pendekatan Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Adapun penggunaan metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dan pendekatan yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Lokasi pengambilan data dalam penelitian ini berada di SMAN 2 Pasuruan. Pengambilan data ini diambil dari sumber data kunci yaitu Guru Pendidikan Agama Islam, para siswa Kelas X Bahasa, X IPS I dan X MIPA 1 dan juga kepala sekolah. Penelitian ini juga didukung dengan adanya sumber data tambahan yang dihasilkan dari beberapa buku, ebook, Jurnal Publikasi dan juga hasil dan dokumentasi. Data dokumentasi berupa arsip Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran, arsip Soal Quis untuk kelas X, beberapa foto dan audio pembelajaran. Dalam pengumpulan data penelitian ini, peneliti memanfaatkan teknik pengamatan lapangan, interview dengan sumber data, serta mengumpulkan arsip-arsip yang dapat menjadi data dalam penelitian ini. Untuk mengalasis hasil penelitian ini, peneliti mengguunak teknik analisis data kualitatif deskriptif. Temuan penelitian dapat menunjukkan bahwa Implementasi Pendekatan HOTS dalam pembelajaran PAI tersebut, pelasanaannya dapat dilakukan melalui merencanakan dengan membuat RPP, lalu melaksanakan pembelajaran PAI dengan menerapkan Pendekatan HOTS dan di akhir pelaksanaan pembelajaran dilakukan evaluasi untuk mengetahui hasil dari implementasi pendekatan HOTS ini. Dari hasil temuan dalam penerapan pembelajaran PAI menggunakan pendekatan HOTS ini dipetakan menjadi 3 bagian yaitu, bagian awal yakni Guru melakukan analisis terhadap metode pembelajaran yang akan digunakan dan hasilnya dapat disimpulkan bahwa siswa kelas X SMAN 2 Pasuruan telah mampu meningkatkan kemampuan berfikirnya secara kritis, mereka juga dapat menyelesaikan masalah seperti dalam topik berprilaku Disiplin. Pada tahapan selanjutnya Guru melaksanakan evaluasi terhadap penerapan metode yang digunakan dalam Proses belajar mengajar, seperti contoh guru PAI memberikan pernyataan negatif yang perlu dikoreksi oleh siswa, kemudian siswa mendeskripsikan ide-ide dan masukan tentang pernyataan tersebut misal materi Sikap Disiplin dan Sikap Berlomba-lomba dalam berbuat kebaikan. Di tahap akhir, Guru melakukan manifestasi melihat transformasi perilaku siswa-siswa Kelas X sesudah menerima pelajaran PAI. Kata kunci: Pendekatan HOTS, Mata Pelajaran PAI, Critical Think Skills


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-546
Author(s):  
Fatine Merieme BELARBI ◽  
Abdelkader BENSAFA

The Algerian English foreign language (EFL) baccalaureate is a high stake exam that assesses both students’ learning and their critical thinking skills. Thus, devising appropriate and effective exam questions may be a problematic issue for tests designers. Under the requirements of the current Algerian English curriculum, the exam questions must cover the lower and higher-order thinking skills of Bloom’s taxonomy. On this basis, this research paper seeks to investigate the effectiveness of the EFL baccalaureate exam papers, and aims to answer the research question: ‘To what extent does the Algerian EFL Baccalaureate exam paper cover the lower and higher-order thinking skills of Bloom’s taxonomy?’ This research is a descriptive content analysis; the researcher analyzed the exam questions of the Algerian EFL Baccalaureate under the cognitive domains of Bloom’s taxonomy. This study is significant as it helps tests’ designers to design practical EFL exams that develop students’ thinking skills and language competencies. The findings of this study revealed that the EFL baccalaureate exam does not establish the students’ higher-order thinking skills and does not assess their communicative abilities. Accordingly, some recommendations are suggested to hopefully help test designers to improve the quality of the EFL Baccalaureate questions.


Author(s):  
Intan Permata Sari And Indra Hartoyo

This study is aimed at (1) analyzing reading exercises based Bloom’s taxonomy for VIII grade in English on Sky textbook. (2) Found the distribution of the lower and higher order thinking skill in reading exercises. (3) To reason for level reading exercises. After analyzed the data, the result of the data analysis also infers that the six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy in reading exercises weren’t applied totally. The creating skill doesn’t have distribution in reading exercise, and the understanding – remembering level more dominant than another levels. The distribution of the higher order thinking level was lower than the lower order thinking level and the six levels are not appropriate with the proportion for each level of education based Bloom’s taxonomy, such as the distribution of the creating level in the reading exercise must be a concern because no question that belong to the creating level. It was concluded that reading exercises in English on Sky textbook cannot improve students' critical thinking skills for VIII grade.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Umi Salma Fauziyah

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui relevansi dari materi bahasa Indonesia pada buku tematik kelas 3 revisi 2018 dengan beberapa aspek yaitu ruang lingkup materi berdasarkan Permendikbud No 21 tahun 2016; HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills); 4Cs (creative thinking, critical thinking, communication, collaboration); literasi membaca-menulis; literasi digital. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan jenis analisis wacana pada materi bahasa Indonesia di buku tematik kelas 3 revisi 2018. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya relevansi antara materi bahasa Indonesia pada buku tematik kelas 3 revisi 2018 dengan aspek yang sudah disebutkan dengan hasil 46% materi sudah disajikan, keterampilan HOTS tidak imbang karena mayoritas critical thinking yaitu 66,7% dan decision making tidak ada, keterampilan 4Cs sudah merata meski critical thinking lebih banyak yaitu 40,5%, literasi membaca persentasenya 78,9% dan literasi menulis 21,1%, literasi digital dibahas pada satu bagian tersendiri yaitu pada tema 7 subtema 3 meskipun materinya masih tahap pengenalan. Secara keseluruhan materi bahasa Indonesia pada buku tematik kelas 3 sudah cukup relevan dengan aspek-aspek yang berkaitan meski ada yang masih kurang merata pada beberapa aspek.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1.SP) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Ha Thi CAO

In the social model, in order to live and work in a complex and competitive environment of the 21st century, students must be well-equipped with such important skills and qualifications, of which creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills are very necessary for learners in the future. In this paper, the researcher aims to focus on teachers’ competency of instruction for developing higher-order thinking skills (creativity, critical thinking skills) through teaching and learning Mathematics in Vietnam.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muradi ◽  
Faisal Mubarak ◽  
Ridha Darmawaty ◽  
Arif Rahman Hakim

Learning Arabic is more dominant as a skill than a Science. The learners’ goals are able to use Arabic both spoken and written well and correctly. While HOTS is more dominant in requiring learners to think integrally. Therefore, it is important to consider the extent to which the Ministerial Regulation accommodates HOTS through a study of the basic competence of Arabic contained in it. This study is a literature review of the basic competence of Arabic in the Decree of the Minister of Religion (KMA) number 183 in 2019 in HOTS perspective. The object of this study is the basic competence of Arabic in KMA 183 in 2019. The result shows the basic competence of Arabic in KMA 183 in 2019 to accommodate the ability in higher order thinking such as problem solving, critical thinking, and reasoning. While the Basic Competence in KMA didn’t achieve creative thinking and decision making.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Hanoof Khalid Alshaiji ◽  
Shaima Jamal Al-Saeed

As stakeholders of educational systems, teachers are urged to participate in social change through the implementation of critical thinking skills into the educational setting. English language teaching has primarily focused on critical thinking, particularly in the recent years. Therefore, teachers are required to examine their teaching materials to ensure that they meet the needs of the 21st century. This study investigates the extent of implemented higher-order thinking skills using revised Bloom’s taxonomy. It examines tasks in course books used at the College of Technological Studies at the Public Authority of Applied Education and Training in Kuwait. The course books examined are Tech Talk at the elementary, pre-intermediate, and intermediate levels. The findings of this study prove that most of the tasks in the sample chosen encourage students’ lower cognitive skills. Therefore, syllabus and material designers and teachers should include tasks that foster higher-order cognitive skills. The results are expected to serve as reference for direct language teachers when planning lessons in their course book adaptation and with curriculum development.  


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