Abstract
Students are expected to have strong reading comprehension skills to face the Industrial Revolution 4.0. This article reports the study results on measuring the students' reading comprehension level when reading a narrative text in one of the senior high schools in Padang using Barrett's taxonomy. Two hundred and eighty students of the eleventh grade of the science program were involved in this study. They had learned narrative text in the tenth grade. Eighty students were chosen as the samples using cluster random sampling. They were put into two classes. This is a descriptive quantitative study that uses tests and questionnaires as research instruments. The study results show that the average of the students' scores was 64.525, classified as in the good category. The students were categorized well in responding to questions in the form of appreciation level. This study also discovered that students have difficulties in answering questions from evaluation levels.
Highlights
The Industrial Revolution 4.0 has affected all areas of human life
Critical thinking is a crucial part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The results of the analysis show that students’ answer in the reading comprehension test in SMA Negeri 1 LubukAlung was in a good category because their average score was 64.525
Summary
Education is one area that needs to be changed to accommodate the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s development. Lase (2019) mentions that education should create a generation that is innovative, creative, and competitive. These forms are possible to attain through enhancing technology since educational guidance is intended to output capable of adapting to and improving the world. People and technology should intersect to generate new creative and innovative opportunities as a reaction to improve educational quality. The 2013 Curriculum focused on teaching-learning activities to increase students' curiosity and critical thinking (Ghozali, 2018). Critical thinking is a crucial part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Critical is defined as a thinking process that encompasses all abilities required in today's world. The abilities are conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating knowledge gained from the activities, such as communication, reasoning, reflection, experience, and observation
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