THE DIFFICULTIES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SOLVING HIGHER-ORDER THINKING SKILLS PROBLEMS

Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2018, Vol 76, Issue 4

Abstract

International surveys, such as TIMSS and PISA, frequently put Indonesia in the low ranks. It is an indication that the higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) of students in Indonesia are still low. This research aims to analyze students’ difficulties in solving problems that measure HOTS. This is a case study research with a qualitative approach. Participants studied were 93 high school students in grade XI. Data were collected using test instruments that measure HOTS, which was developed based on the standard contents of high school mathematics. The difficulties were analyzed descriptively by observing students’ errors in answering HOTS test items. Students’ errors were classified based on Newman’s Error Procedure (NEP). The result shows that around 8.33% of the students had difficulties in comprehension, 15.59% in transformation, 32.53% in process skills, and 1.34 % in encoding.

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SAMSUL HADI, Heri Retnawati, Sudji Munadi, Ezi Apino, Nidya F. Wulandari

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SAMSUL HADI, Heri Retnawati, Sudji Munadi, Ezi Apino, Nidya F. Wulandari (2018). THE DIFFICULTIES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SOLVING HIGHER-ORDER THINKING SKILLS PROBLEMS. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 76(4), 520-532. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-432657