High Order Thinking Skills Students Through Multi-Representation Test on Newtons Law Study

Abstract

This study aims to describe higher-order thinking skills in Newton’s law study based on a multi-representation test. The methods used quantitative descriptive and implemented on one of the class X High School in Surabaya academic year 2019/2020. The questions that tested were verbal, graphic, visual, or mathematically representations consist of the ability to analyse, evaluate, and create adjusted cognitive domain in Bloom’s taxonomy revised. Validity and reliability instrument test in this study with help Winstep software. Based on the result of the analysis, it was found high order thinking skill student in the high category of 42 %, high order thinking skill student in the middle category of 16 %, and high order thinking skill student in the low category of 42 %. Higher-order thinking skills had categorized as enough. Average value person logit equals -0.95 which means that more students answered incorrectly on the questions were tested. Student’s ability in representing physics knowledge shows how the student’s level of understanding.