Analysis of higher order thinking skills students at junior high school in Surakarta

Abstract

Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) is high level thinking that many abilities includes inside it. HOTS has 3 dimension, namely: analysis (C4), evaluation (C5) and creating ideas (C6). This research aims to analyze the results of test HOTS of students in 3 school categories, namely high, medium and low category schools. The study is descriptive with quantitative approach using 95 students as a sample from three schools. The sample consists of 32 students in high categories, 32 students in mediumcategories, and 31 students in low categories. They are selectedrandomly. The HOTS indicator comes from the revision of Bloom Taxonomy. The dimension of C4 hasthree indicators, there are differentiating, organizing,and attributing. The dimension of C5 has two indicators, there are checking and critiquing. The dimension of C6 has one indicator, there is producing. The results of this research are: 1) students in high school categories has best result in HOTS problems, 2) in middle and low school categories, students have the highest scores on attributing that is indicators at dimension C4, and 3) students at three school levels are still having difficulty taking a conclusions.