scholarly journals Game Design as a Tool to Promote Higher Order Thinking Skills

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Natalya Rudina Shamsuar
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
International Society ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Thinking Process

This paper reports a study conducted on enabling teaching higher order thinking skills among kids aged 7 to 12 years old. The objective of the study is to propose a conceptual framework and demonstrate the tools and resources needed by educators to embed higher order thinking skills in classroom using game design. The conceptual framework is based on the standards advocated by International Society on Technology in Education (ISTE) and Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) that is mapped to the process of game design and development. Game design is an engaging process that encapsulates many tenets of thinking skills. The tangible outcomes and progress could be used to measure the thinking process and levels that had taken place. The paper then further demonstrates the use of this framework in a three day workshop. Two sessions of the workshop were conducted with a total of 44 participants. It is hoped that this study contributes in the areas of higher order thinking skills enablers.

scholarly journals The relationship between science teachers’ use of the flipped classroom strategy and their attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among upper basic stage students in Hebron: العلاقة بين استخدام معلمي العلوم لاستراتيجية الصف المعكوس واتجاهاتهم نحو تنمية مهارات التفكير العليا لدى طلبة المرحلة الأساسية العليا في محافظة الخليل

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (39) ◽  
pp. 95-72
Author(s):  
Haneen Mahmoud Taha Bostanje Haneen Mahmoud Taha Bostanje
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Basic Stage ◽  
Teaching Thinking ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship

The study aimed to identify the relationship between science teachers' use of the flipped classroom strategy and their attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students of the higher basic stage in the Hebron governorate. In order to achieve the goal of the study, the researcher followed the descriptive and analytical approach, as she/he conducted a questionnaire to measure the extent to which science teachers use the flipped classroom strategy, and she conducted another questionnaire to measure the attitudes of science teachers towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students of the higher basic stage. Then, the two questionnaire sheets are electronically applied to a random sample of science teachers in the Hebron governorate. The number of the sample is (136) teachers in all directorates of the Hebron governorate. The results have shown that science teachers use the flipped classroom strategy frequently. Moreover, science teachers' attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students were at a high level, as the field of "critical thinking skills" came in the first place, followed by "problem-solving skills", however, "creative thinking skills" ranked last. Besides, the results have shown a strong correlation between science teachers ’use of the flipped classroom strategy and teachers' attitudes towards developing students' higher-order thinking skills. And, there are statistically significant differences in the science teachers' use of the flipped classroom strategy in teaching students of the higher basic stage in the Hebron governorate as well as in the science teachers' attitudes towards developing higher-order thinking skills among students of the higher basic stage in the Hebron governorate according to the gender variable for females, and according to the directorate variable for the directorate North Hebron. given the findings of the study; The researcher recommended that it is necessary to provide means of support to encourage teachers to employ modern technologies in teaching thinking. It is also necessary to conduct more studies dealing with the relationship between teachers' attitudes towards developing higher thinking skills and employing other teaching strategies and to conduct evaluation studies to examine the effectiveness of flipped learning strategies in teaching thinking.

scholarly journals Sophisticated Thinking: Higher Order Thinking Skills

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Tikhonova ◽  
Natalia Kudinova
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Significant Deterioration ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Thinking Process

The information-based society determines that the key factor to achieve success is the development of sophisticated thinking. That said, the thinking process cannot be just a mere imitation of cognitive work, since the digital age requires the authentic skills of working with a flow of information that is being constantly updated. This paper deals with the last stage of the study devoted to the development of sophisticated thinking. It focuses on the enhancement of higher order thinking skills. We claim that the cognitive processes should be based on three phases: development of disposition towards both thinking process and processed information; development of lower order thinking skills which serves as an indispensable basis for developing higher order thinking skills; and development of higher order thinking skills. The omission or reordering of any of these phases may result in significant deterioration of the obtained results. The special emphasis is put on the idea that higher order thinking skills are more effectively developed when lower order thinking skills have already been interiorized. Furthermore, the development of disposition is regarded as the cornerstone of the development of sophisticated thinking in general. Also, due to its defining feature of polysemy, a literary text is considered to be the most appropriate basis for enhancing students’ thinking skills. For the purpose of verifying the theoretical ideas, a qualitative study has been conducted. The two groups of students, who participated in the first and second stages (three-month cycle each) of our project, continue to be involved in this one. They are second-year bachelor students of the Higher School of Economics who are studying English as a second language. On the basis of the ideas expressed by B. Bloom about the division between lower and higher order thinking skills and by J. Mezirow about transformative learning we designed tasks to enhance higher order thinking skills. These tasks were related to the short stories written by D. Barthelme and printed as a collection, Sixty Stories. To teach the students of both groups (control and experimental), the text-based approach with special techniques to measure the students’ level of understanding and the ability to apply the given information was used. The results of the experiment indicated that the students of both groups made headway in their application of thinking skills. However, the students of the experimental group demonstrated a more significant shift due to the fact that the development of their disposition towards cognitive processes and processed information had been specifically targeted over the course of the first and second stages of the project. Another important outcome of the study was that the participants’ frame of reference was extended which allows us to speculate that the development of sophisticated thinking may result in the change of a person’s interpretation of socio-cultural situation. Hence, a further in-depth study of the issue should be conducted.

திருக்குறள் கற்றலின் வழி படிவம் 2 மாணவர்களின் உயர்நிலைச் சிந்தனைத் திறனை மேம்படுத்துதல் [THIRUKKURAL KADRALIN VALI PADIVAM 2 MAANAVARKALIN UYARNILAIC SINTANAIT THIRANAI MEEMPADUTTUYAL] (IMPROVING THE LEVEL OF HOTS (HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS) OF FORM 2 STUDENTS BY LEARNING THIRUKKURAL)

2019 ◽  
pp. 96-110
Author(s):  
Renita Prera Winsen
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Data Collections

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.)

Soal HOTS Akidah Akhlak untuk Kelas 4 Madrasah Ibtidaiyah

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills

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.

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