The effect of problem based learning model on junior high school students’ higher order thinking skills

Abstract

The facts indicate that students’ higher order thinking skills at second grade of SMPN 1 Jember is relatively low. They were only learning with assignments in class and did not use theory to solve their problems. Therefore, we conduct a research on mathematical learning through Problem Based Learning model to find out the effect of students’ higher order thinking skills. The method used in this study is a mixed method. The quantitative method is used to analyze student learning achievement and students’ higher order thinking skills.This experimental research have two classes which are control class and experimental class that contain 32 students each class. The result showed that Problem Based Learning model had a positive effect on higher order thingking skills. It can be seen from the percentage of higher order thingking skills of control class was 40,63% and experimental class 90,62%.