scholarly journals Enhancing Horticulture Students' Reasoning and Thinking Skills: Applying the Perry Theory to Horticulture

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1138A-1138
Author(s):  
Catherine Lavis

This study explored students' cognitive complexity as defined by William Perry (1970) as influenced by teaching methods promoting active involvement at a higher level of interchange than traditional lecture. Two components of this research are: 1) an understanding of Perry's theory to serve as a guide for curricula development incorporating activities to influence intellectual growth by considering the student's current Perry positions in order to encourage upward movement according to Perry's Scheme; and 2) to investigate the reliability of using the student's Learning Environment Preference Inventory (LEP) (Moore, 1987) as a tool to understand the student's cognitive growth. The qualitative portion of this research examined cognitive complexity using the LEP instrument. LEP would give instructors an approximate idea of how to construct their courses to deliver information encouraging higher-order thinking. It is a mistake to assume students in upper division courses are all operating in upper Perry positions. It is difficult to make significant gains in intellectual development during one semester, but it is particularly challenging if instructors are unaware of where students are initially in respect to cognitive complexity. The utilization of a reliable instrument may also help explain some perplexing incidents that occur in classrooms. Instructors can be comforted knowing that what frequently transpires in a class might be motivated more by where students are in their cognitive development than by what is said or done by the instructor.

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel P. Abuzo

Developing critical thinking and problem solving skills of students are some of the important goals that every school must set. This study determined the effectiveness of non-traditional activities to develop mathematical higher order thinking skills of grade seven students. This study employed the non-equivalent control group experimental design, which involved 83 grade 7 students of Sawata National High School. There were two sections used in this study, the control group which the researcher used the traditional lecture activity and the experimental group, were the students exposed to non-traditional activities: manipulative activities, computer-aided activities, and reflective writing activities. The specific subject matters covered were the second-grading mathematics seven topics which are measurement and measuring of length, measuring mass/weight and volume, and measuring angles, time and temperature. The data were gathered using the multiple choice teacher’s made test in the pre-test and post-test. Prior to the study, the higher order thinking skills of the two groups had no significant difference. The result changed after the treatment was given. The study concludes that the used of non-traditional activities were effective over the traditional activity in the development of the higher order thinking skills of the students. The study recommends integration of non-traditional activities to develop the higher order thinking skills of the students.Keywords— Education, non-traditional activities, higher order thinking skills, experimental, non-equivalent, Davao City, Philippines


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Prashant Thote ◽  
Gowri S

In this paper attempt is made to investigate summative examination questions of grade 11 according to cognitive complexity. Total 12 senior secondary schools grade 11 question papers of the academic year 2018-19 end exams are considered in the present study. Total 384 questions are asked. In the present study conducted - theory based content analysis and qualitative methodology is employed by using revised Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive objectives.  Higher order thinking, middle order thinking and lower order thinking skills based questions are structured.  The present research is guided by research question “What kind of cognitive skills and knowledge do grade 11 examination questions require?”  Result of the study reveals that year end examinations are demanding.  52% questions are from higher order cognitive skills.  Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is used for designing the assessment tool.  The two higher order thinking skills categories should be more evenly present in the exam.


2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara R. DeRuisseau

The flipped classroom was utilized in a two-semester, high-content science course that enrolled between 50 and 80 students at a small liberal arts college. With the flipped model, students watched ~20-min lectures 2 days/wk outside of class. These videos were recorded via screen capture and included a detailed note outline, PowerPoint slides, and review questions. The traditional format included the same materials, except that lectures were delivered in class each week and spanned the entire period. During the flipped course, the instructor reviewed common misconceptions and asked questions requiring higher-order thinking, and five graded case studies were performed each semester. To determine whether assessments included additional higher-order thinking skills in the flipped vs. traditional model, questions across course formats were compared via Blooms Taxonomy. Application-level questions that required prediction of an outcome in a new scenario comprised 38 ± 3 vs. 12 ± 1% of summative assessment questions (<0.01): flipped vs. traditional. Final letter grades in both formats of the course were compared with major GPA. Students in the flipped model performed better than their GPA predicted, as 85.5% earned a higher grade (vs. 42.2% in the traditional classroom) compared with their major GPA. These data demonstrate that assessments transitioned to more application-level compared with factual knowledge-based questions with this particular flipped model, and students performed better in their final letter grade compared with the traditional lecture format. Although the benefits to a flipped classroom are highlighted, student evaluations did suffer. More detailed studies comparing the traditional and flipped formats are warranted.


Author(s):  
Renita Prera Winsen

பேராக் மாநிலத்தில் தைப்பிங் மாவட்டத்தில் அமைந்துள்ள ஓர் இடைநிலைப்பள்ளியில் திருக்குறள் கற்றலின் வழி படிவம் 2 மாணவர்களின் உயர்நிலைச் சிந்தனைத் திறனை மேம்படுத்தும் முயற்சியில் ஆய்வு மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டது. தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்ட 10 மாணவர்கள் இந்த ஆய்வில் உட்படுத்தப்பட்டனர். திருக்குறளில் மாணவர்களின் ஆளுமையைக் கண்டறிய அந்த இடைநிலைப்பள்ளியின் தமிழாசிரியரிடம் நேர்காணல் நடத்தப்பட்டது. மாணவர்களின் உயர்நிலைச் சிந்தனைத் திறனை மேம்படுத்த படிவம் 1 மற்றும் படிவம் 2-இல் வரையறுக்கப்பட்ட ஆறு திருக்குறள்கள் தேர்தெடுக்கப்பட்டன. தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்ட திருக்குறள்கள் யாவும் சீரமைக்கப்பட்ட புளூமின் அறிவுசார் முறைப்பாட்டியலின் துணைக்கொண்டு பலதரப்பட கேள்விகள் தயாரிக்கப்பட்டது. ஆறு வாரத் திருக்குறள் வகுப்பிற்குப் பின் இக்கேள்விகள் யாவும் மாணவர்களுக்கு வழங்கப்பட்டன. கேள்விக்கான பதில்களிலிருந்து மாணவர்களின் உயர்நிலைச் சிந்தனைத் திறனில் ஏற்பட்ட மாற்றங்கள் கண்டறியப்பட்டது. ஆய்வின் முடிவாக, முறையான திருக்குறள் கற்றலின் வழி மாணவர்களின் உயர்நிலைச் சிந்தனைத் திறனை மேம்படுத்த முடியும் என்பது உறுதிச் செய்யப்பட்டது. (This study has been conducted with the purpose of improving the level of HOTS (Higher order thinking skills) of Form 2 students through learning Thirukkural. For this study, the Thirukkural, a well-known literary work of Tamil Language was taken. Thus, this research was carried out in a secondary school which is located at Taiping, Perak. The research was carried out under the design of action research. The sample of this study consisted of ten Form 2 students. Besides that, a teacher also interviewed in order to know the students' personality in learning Thirukkural. In this research, the learning process of Thirukkural approach was implemented for 6 weeks. There are 6 couplets of Thirukkural selected according to the syllabus of Form 1 and Form 2. This six couplets of Thirukkural used to test the level of HOTS. The questions were created based on Thirukkural, according to Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. The data of the study was collected through pre-test, the questions asked in Thirukkural classes and post-test via qualitative and quantitative data collection tools. The findings obtained through qualitative and quantitative data collections showed that the level of HOTS through learning Thirukkural among Form 2 students has improved.)


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.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan

Karya ini menunjukkan rancangan soal HOTS (higher-order thinking skills, keterampilan berpikir tingkat tinggi) untuk mata pelajaran Akidah-Akhlak kelas 4 Madrasah Ibtidaiyah. Akidah-Akhlak di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah merupakan salah satu mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) yang mempelajari tentang rukun iman yang dikaitkan dengan pengenalan dan penghayatan terhadap al-asmā’ al-ḥusnā, serta perekaan suasana keteladanan dan pembiasaan dalam mengamalkan al-akhlāq al-karīmah dan al-adāb al-Islamī melalui unjuk kerja dan cara mengamalkannya dalam keseharian. Hasil (outcomes) pembelajaran Akidah-Akhlak diharapkan memiliki peran dalam memberi motivasi kepada murid untuk mempraktikkan al-akhlāq al-karīmah dan al-adāb al-Islamī dalam keseharian sebagai wujud īmān kepada Allōh, para malāikat-Nya, seluruh kitab- Nya, semua rosūl dan nabī-Nya, hari akhir, serta qodō’ dan qodar dari-Nya. Ruang lingkup soal yang dirancang mencakup pembelajaran kelas 4 yang terbatas untuk Kompetensi Dasar (KD) Pengetahuan 1.1; 1.2; dan 1.3; serta Keterampilan 2.1; 2.2; dan 2.3.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan

Karya ini menunjukkan rancangan soal HOTS (higher-order thinking skills, keterampilan berpikir tingkat tinggi) untuk mata pelajaran Akidah-Akhlak kelas 4 Madrasah Ibtidaiyah. Akidah-Akhlak di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah merupakan salah satu mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) yang mempelajari tentang rukun iman yang dikaitkan dengan pengenalan dan penghayatan terhadap al-asmā’ al-ḥusnā, serta perekaan suasana keteladanan dan pembiasaan dalam mengamalkan al-akhlāq al-karīmah dan al-adāb al-Islamī melalui unjuk kerja dan cara mengamalkannya dalam keseharian. Hasil (outcomes) pembelajaran Akidah-Akhlak diharapkan memiliki peran dalam memberi motivasi kepada murid untuk mempraktikkan al-akhlāq al-karīmah dan al-adāb al-Islamī dalam keseharian sebagai wujud īmān kepada Allōh, para malāikat-Nya, seluruh kitab- Nya, semua rosūl dan nabī-Nya, hari akhir, serta qodō’ dan qodar dari-Nya. Ruang lingkup soal yang dirancang mencakup pembelajaran kelas 4 yang terbatas untuk Kompetensi Dasar (KD) Pengetahuan 1.1; 1.2; dan 1.3; serta Keterampilan 2.1; 2.2; dan 2.3.


Author(s):  
Esti Devi Pratiwi ◽  
Filia Prima Atharina ◽  
Henry Januar Saputra

Learners find it difficult to learn if asked to solve problems with high-level thinking (HOTS). Difficulties experienced by students are difficulties in working on HOTS-based question in which students are asked to think critically and understand the purpose of the questions be worked on. Descriptive qualitative research methods. Sources of research data are students in class V SD N Bugangan 02 Semarang. Data collection procedures used are observation, interviews, and documentation. The results showed that fifth grade students found it difficult to work on HOTS-based questions because in the learning process teachers rarely gave HOTS-based question so students were not accustomed to solving questions by thinking highly.


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