Prospective physics teacher’s ability in developing HOTS questions: CRI analysis

Nurul Ain

doi:10.21067/mpej.v5i2.5566

Abstract

Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) are very important skills to be taught to students in the 21st century. The role of teachers is very important in improving students' high-level skills. This study aims to determine whether or not prospective physics teachers have misconceptions in compiling HOTS cognitive questions. The emergence of miscon-ceptions shows that the ability of prospective physics teachers is still low in composing HOTS cognitive questions. The research subjects were all final semester prospective physics teachers who took the learning evaluation course at the Universitas PGRI Kanjuruhan Malang in the even semester of 2019/2020. The data collection technique is documentation. The data is taken from the final project document in the learning evaluation course, where prospective physics teachers are asked to make cognitive ques-tions from levels C1 to C6 and are asked to state their beliefs about the questions they have made. The data were analyzed in the descriptive qualitative way to determine the misconceptions of prospective physics teachers. The results showed that prospective physics teachers were not yet able to compile HOTS cognitive questions. Recommenda-tions for the preparation of HOTS questions are also given in this paper.

Highlights

Higher order thinking skill (HOTS) is an important 21st century skill taught in schools to adapt to the rapid development of technology
This study aims to determine whether or not there is a misconception of prospective physics teachers in the Physics Education Study Program of Universitas Kanjuruhan Malang when composing cognitive questions from C1 to C6, especially emphasizing HOTS questions
The results of data analysis on the average confidence of prospective physics teachers on the questions they made are presented in Table 3 which informs the CRI scores of the six question categories, namely from C1 to C6

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Higher order thinking skill (HOTS) is an important 21st century skill taught in schools to adapt to the rapid development of technology Teachers agree that HOTS learning is important to be taught to students at all levels (Kim et al, 2019; Schulz & FitzPatrick, 2016; Tyas et al, 2019). High order thinking thinking (HOTS) is an important component for successfully facing the development of the 21st century. HOTS must be considered and taught at every level of school

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