Pre-Service Science Teachers' Perception About High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in the 21st Century

Afandi Afandi,Nunuk Suryani,Sajidan Sajidan,Muhammad Akhyar

doi:10.20961/ijpte.v2i1.18254

Abstract

In the 21st century, the pre-service science teachers faced on extremely global competitiveness, globalization, technologically driven by information and rapidly media-saturated that needs appropriate skills to meet these challenges. The aims of this study is to identify pre-service science teacher perception about high order thinking skills (HOTs) in 21st century. This study employed quantitative design using a survey research method involved 120 pre-service science teachers from Tanjungpura University. The results of this study indicated that prospective science teachers have an awareness of the importance of HOTs and their also knowing that the learning do emphasized on the aspects of HOTs is essential to face the challenges of the 21st century. It is indicated by the mean score of pre-service science teacher perception about the important of HOTs to meet the challenges in the 21st century (M = 4.29, SD = 0.61) and the skills of HOT that their will be required to becomes a teacher in the 21st century (M = 4.31; SD = 0.47) in the high level. This result provides the reasons why we need cultivating a positive awareness of the importance of HOTs in order to fostering the need for teaching that emphasizes the aspects of HOTs during pre-service education.

Highlights

Today, education around the world faced with the challenges of the 21st century that need the reform of the educational system on a wide scale due to the information explosion, globalization, and competition in all fields
There is can be seen in the Law on the National Education System, Number 20 by the years 2003: "...developing students' potential to become a critically, creatively, and independently citizenship". This formula implies that the aims of Indonesian Educational System is to develop the potential of learners to have higher order thinking skills (HOTs), while in the micro term, this formula implies that the task and role of teachers in schools is to provide a learning environment that allows the development of students potential to acquire knowledge and HOTs as the core of classroom learning
This study aims to identify pre-service science teacher perception about HOTs in 21st century

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Introduction

Education around the world faced with the challenges of the 21st century that need the reform of the educational system on a wide scale due to the information explosion, globalization, and competition in all fields This reform is not about the change of the curriculum content but rather the change of pedagogy, ie the change in the act of simple action toward comprehensive action and the change of traditional teaching which emphasizes low order thinking skills (LOTs) to learning that emphasizes the higher order thinking skills (HOTs). In other words, this transition process as the heart of well-conceived educational reforms and restructuring because it is the heart of the changes of the 21st century (Paul, 1995). This formula implies that the aims of Indonesian Educational System is to develop the potential of learners to have HOTs, while in the micro term, this formula implies that the task and role of teachers in schools is to provide a learning environment that allows the development of students potential to acquire knowledge and HOTs as the core of classroom learning

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