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HALAMAN JUDUL...............................................................................................1
DAFTAR ISI........................................................................................................... 2
ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................. 3
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................ 3
LITERATUR VIEWS........................................................................................... 4
METHODS........................................................................................................... 5
Reliability.................................................................................................... 5
Level of Difficulty...................................................................................... 5
Distinguishing points.................................................................................. 5
RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS......................................................................... 5
Result ......................................................................................................... 5
Field Trial Result......................................................................................... 6
Discussions................................................................................................. 11
Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 14
Location Overview............................................................................................... 15
References............................................................................................................ 15
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CHARACTERISTIC OF HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS
ASSESSMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT LESSON
Kusuma Wardany
Nahdlatul Ulama Lampung University
kusuma.wardany@ymail.com
kusuma.wardany@0619@mail.com
ABSTRACT
This research is aimed to know the characteristic of Higher Order Thinking Skills
assessment. The instrument was arranged based on Development Borg & Gall step. The
arrangement of examination draft validated by qualified validator and teacher. Then,
examination draft tested to few students in small trial. The trial result analysed as
quantitatively used Quest program that used to determine reliability, difficulty level, differ
effort, and distractor effectivity. There are some revisions after small trial, and then field
trial did. Based on field trial, it is known that assessment instrument of Higher Order
Thinking Skills to senior high school students in Surakarta for environment topic, has high
validity and reliability with high and enough interpretation score. Inside of environment
topic, there are questions with difficulty level of 0,68% difficult 0,68%, 9,65% medium,
and 9,6% are easy (multiple choice) 60% difficult, 40% easy (essay), there are some of
them that has differ effort with proportion score 6,89% less, 6,20% enough and 6,89%
(multiple choice), 40% enough, 51,11% good and 8,88% very good (essay). Result show
that instrument of Higher Order Thinking Skillsassessment about environment topic be able
to measure higher thinking skill level of students.
INTRODUCTION
Assessment or evaluation is a general term that covers the entire procedure used to
obtain information about student learning outcomes (observation, ranking, testing using
paper and pencil) and making assessment about the learning process (Gronlund & Linn,
1995). In education, assessment is defined as a procedure used to obtain information to
measure the students' level of knowledge and skills whose results will be used for
evaluation purposes (Reynolds, Livingston, Willson, 2010).
Higher Order Thinking Skill is a thinking skill that not only requires remembering
skills, but also requires other higher skills. Indicators for measuring Higher Order
Thinking Skills are include analysing skills (C4), evaluating (C5), and creating (C6)
(Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001). Higher Order Thinking Skills as thinking skills that
occur when someone takes new information and information that has been stored in his
memory, then connects the information and delivers it in order to achieve the goals or
give the answers needed (Lewis & Smith, 1993).
This is in line with the 21st century community skills characteristics that published by
the Partnership of 21st Century Skill which identifying that students in the 21st century
must be able to develop the competitive skills needed in the 21st century that focusing
on developing Higher Order Thinking Skills, such as: critical thinking (critical thinking),
problem solving (communication solving), communication skills, ICT literacy,
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information and communication technology (ICT, information and communication
technology), information literacy, and media literacy ) (Basuki & Haryanto, 2012).
The results of High School Observations in Surakarta that were chosen randomly
through Deuteronomy and Exams such as National Exams, Final-term Exams, Middle-
term Exams, School Exams, Daily Tests, as well as from textbooks that teachers and
students use on ecosystem and environmental materials show that the problems and
questions are still in the low cognitive domain (lower order thinking skills). The low
percentage of High Order Thinking skills questions is an indicator of the students' low
cognitive level in school.
Assessments that measure Higher Order Thinking Skills can use subjective and
objective tests form. A subjective test is an essay test. Essay test is a kind of test that
needs description answer using the test-takers own words. In essay form tests, the
students are required to think about and use what is known regarding the questions that
must be answered. Objective test is a kind of test that consist the true-false answer test
(true false), multiple choices, completion, and matching (Suwandi, 2009).
To be able to state that a learning result is good or bad, successful or failed, the data
obtained must also be truly reliable / accurate so that the determination taken is not
wrong. If the data is wrong, then the results of the assessment will be wrong and
consequently the decision will be wrong. Therefore, it is necessary to have a good test
tool so that the data obtained is accurate (Subali, 2010).
Based on this, the problem in this research is how the characteristics of the Higher Order
Thinking Skill assessment in the environmental material that will be tested in high
school students in class XI. The purpose of this research is to find out the characteristics
of Higher Order Thinking Skill assessment on environmental material that will be tested
in high school students of class XI.
LITERATUR VIEWS
According to Lewis & Smith (1993), Higher Order Thinking Skills is a thinking
skill that does not only require ability remember, but need other abilities that are
higher. Higher Order Thinking Skills skills as thinking skills that occur when
someone takes new information and information that has been stored in his memory,
then connects that information and conveys it to achieve the goals or answers
needed.
King, Goodson, Ludwika, and Rohani (2010) say high-level thinking skills in
students can be empowered by giving unusual and erratic problems such as questions
or dilemmas, so that successful application of this ability is when students managed
to explain, decide, show, and produce problem solving in the context of knowledge
and experience.
Heong et. al (2011) states that higher-order thinking is the use of the mind more
broadly to find new challenges. Higher-order thinking skills require someone to
apply new information or prior knowledge and manipulate information to reach
possible answers in new situations. Wardana (2010) suggests that high-level thinking
skills are thought processes that involve mental activities in an effort to explore
complex, reflective and creative experiences that are carried out consciously to
achieve goals, namely acquiring knowledge which includes the level of analytical
thinking, synthesis, and evaluation.
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METHODS
The instrument was prepared based on the steps of Borg & Gall's Development
Research (1983). Data analysis techniques used are qualitative and quantitative data
analysis. Qualitative analysis is done through a research to determine the validity of the
contents of the test instrument, namely the reliability between the questions in the test
and the indicators that have been prepared previously. Quantitative analysis is carried out
by using the Quest program. Some aspects that are analysed quantitatively are the
reliability, level of difficulty, test-items, distinguishing points and efficiency of distractor.
Reliability
Reliability is often called as the degree of consistency (constancy). When a
measuring instrument has high reliability, it means that even though the assessment done
repeatedly with these measuring instruments, it will produce the same or almost the same
as the required information (Purwanto, 2010). The reliability of the test instruments is
also reviewed from the results of the Quest program analysis.
Level of Difficulty
The difficulty level of a test subject or problem (denoted by P) is the proportion of
all students who answer the test subject or problem correctly. Numbers that indicate the
difficulty and ease of a problem are called the difficulty index (p). The magnitude of the
difficulty index is between 0.00 and 1.00. The problem with the 0.0 index difficulty
shows that the problem is too difficult; whereas index 1.0 shows that the problem is too
easy. The level of difficulty of the test instrument is also viewed from the results of the
Quest program analysis.
Distinguishing points
The distinguishing point is the ability of a question to distinguish between high and
low-ability students in answering correctly in the analysed questions. The distinguishing
point of the test instrument is also viewed from the results of the Quest program analysis.
Results
Qualitative analysis was conducted to review the test-items seen from the material,
construction and language aspects so that the validity of the test instrument was
obtained.
Table 2. The Conclusion of the of Small Trial Environmental Test Analysis Material
Results
1,2,3, 5, 6, 8, 9,
12, 13, 15,
Revised 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 18 (45%)
24, 25, 29
Rejected - -
Total - 40
1) Validity
SMA 2 32 6 235 3 - -
SMA 3 35 3 34 1 3 -
SMA 3
4 36 2 5 3 - -
SMA
6 38 - 35 2 1 -
SMA 7 38 - 37 1 - -
Total 179 11(5,78) 176 10(5,26%) 4(2,1%) -
(94,2 (92,63%
1%) )
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2) Reliability
Table 4. Reliability Test-Items about Environment
Reliability
School Test Form Value Note
0,
SMA 2 MC 77 High
Essay 0,68 High
0,
SMA 3 MC 44 Fair
Essay 0,74 High
0, Very
SMA 4 MC 81 High
Essay 0,64 High
0,
SMA 6 MC 76 High
Very
Essay 0,82 High
Very
SMA 7 MC 0,81 High
Very
Essay 1,00 High
3) Level of Difficulty
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4) Distinguishing Points
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Table 8.Distinguishing Points of Environment Material (Essay)
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Discussions
Before the instrument is tested in the field, the instrument is analyzed qualitatively.
The instrument review is theoretically or descriptively carried out to see the readability
of the instrument and for content validation. Descriptive review of the instrument was
carried out by reviewing material, construction and language aspects. In this study, a
descriptive instrument review was carried out by evaluation instrument experts,
material expert lecturers, linguists and practitioner teachers. The results of the
descriptive study found several questions that were not in accordance with the criteria
so they had to be revised.
After the test instrument was analysed descriptively and validated by the expert
validator, then the instrument was tested on class XI students in Karanganyar 2 SMA.
Quantitative analysis on trial I was done by using MicroCat ITEMAN version 3.00.
The ITEMAN program version 3.00 automatically analyses the level of difficulty,
distinguishing points, the reliability of questions and some other statistical data. The
results of the overall test instrument analysis in test I can be seen in the table below.
Based on Table 2, it can be concluded that in the small groups trials of environmental
material there were 22 items or 55% received, and 18 items or 45% were revised from
total 40 test-items.
Small group trials are a stage of limited trials. Suparman (2012) mentions the
importance of limited trials is to find out how easily students understand the material in
the development assessment instrument, which parts of the assessment instruments are
difficult to understand and the causes, and which test items are not relevant to the
material presented. Data obtained in small group trials (assessment and student
responses) were compiled and analysed to revise the product.
The results of field trials were conducted on five schools in Surakarta, namely
SMA 2, SMA 3, SMA 4, SMA 6, and SMA 7 Surakarta with Environment as subject
matter.
1) Validity
2) Reliability
3) Level of Difficulty
4) Distinguishing Points
CONCLUSIONS
The conclusions that can be inferred from the results of the research on the
development of instruments for evaluating Higher Order Thinking Skills on ecosystem
and environment material are as follows:
1. The results show that the field test of HOTS's assessment has validity and reliability
with very high average interpretations, and at least enough on environment material.
2. The question on environment material has a difficulty level with the proportion of
0.68% considered as difficult, 89.65% considered moderate and 9.6% considered as
easy ( in multiple choice), while 60% is interpreted as difficult and 40% is
interpreted as moderate (in essay), has a distinguishing points with proportion;
6,89% less, 86.20% enough, and 6.89% good (multiple choice), 40% enough,
51.11% good and 8.88% very good (essay).
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