Academic literature on the topic 'Lower order thinking skills (LOTS)'

This work analyses students’ failure in the 2019 Nationwide Chemistry Examination in Greece, which concerns secondary education graduates, competing for admission to higher education Greek institutions. The distinction of thinking skills into higher and lower order (HOTS and LOTS) is used as a theoretical tool for this analysis. The examination included several questions that contained HOTS elements that had been unusual in previous examinations. This led to a decrease in overall student performance but better discrimination between outstanding and good students. Based on two samples of examination papers, corresponding to very similar subsets of the student population, the 2018 and 2019 examinations are compared, and the individual 2019 questions are evaluated. It was found that section B of the 2019 examination paper (which included contexts unfamiliar to the students, and for which, a large effect size between 2018 and 2019 was calculated) may have caused the large drop. An important link is established between the 2019 low performance and the HOTS and LOTS features of the questions, and the role or non-role of algorithmic calculations is examined. In addition, the critical opinions of chemistry teachers are provided, with a consensus emerging in favour of connecting chemistry with everyday life. Keywords: chemistry examinations, higher-order cognitive skills, higher-order thinking skills, student assessment, twelfth-grade chemistry.

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan soal berdasarkan level berpikir, yakni dengan mengelompokkan soal berdasarkan level Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS), Middle Order Thinking Skills (MOTS), atau Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) serta mengelompokkan soal berdasarkan jenis stimulus yang digunakan sebagai dasar pertanyaan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif jenis analisis dokumen. Dokumen yang dianalisis pada penelitian ini adalah dokumen soal Penilaian Akhir Semester Genap pada mata pelajaran matematika kelas VIII di tingkat SMP salah satu sekolah di Kota Semarang tahun pelajaran 2017/2018. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa lebih dari tiga perempat dari keseluruhan soal berada pada kategori Middle Order Thinking Skills (MOTS), kurang dari seperempat dari keseluruhan soal merupakan soal Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS), dan terdapat satu soal yang merupakan soal Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS). Soal kategori Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) paling banyak ditemukan pada materi bangun ruang sisi datar, sedangkan pada materi peluang belum ada soal yang memenuhi kriteria Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Jenis stimulus yang terdapat pada soal adalah gambar, daftar kata, penggalan kasus, tabel, dan diagram dimana penggalan kasus merupakan stimulus yang paling banyak ditemukan, yakni hampir sepertiga dari keseluruhan soal. Kata kunci: penilaian akhir semester, level berpikir, stimulus. ABSTRACT This research aims to describe the question based on the level of thinking, namely by grouping questions based on the level of Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS), Middle Order Thinking Skills (MOTS), or Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and grouping questions based on the type of stimulus used as a basis question. This research is a descriptive study of the type of document analysis. The documents analyzed in this study are documents about the Final Semester Evaluation on the eighth grade mathematics subjects in one of the Semarang Junior High School in school year 2017/2018. The results showed that more than three-quarters of all questions were in the Middle Order Thinking Skills (MOTS) category, less than a quarter of all questions were Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS), and there was one problem which was a matter of Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS). The problem with the category of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is found mostly on 3-D shape with flat faces materials, while in the probalility materials, there is no problem that meets the criteria of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). The types of stimulus found in the problem are pictures, word lists, fragments of cases, tables, and diagrams where the fragment of the case is the most common stimulus, that is, almost one third of the questions. Keywords: final semester assessment, thinking level, stimulus.

Pembelajaran dan penilaian pembelajaran berbasis kemampuan berpikir tingkat tinggi (Higher Order Thinking Skills / HOTS) atau berpikir kritis selalu direkomendasikan dalam proses pembelajaran yang bermutu. Tujuan dari penelitiam ini yaitu untuk mendeskripsikan soal-soal pada penilaian akhir semester berdasarkan level berpikir dan jenis-jenis stimulis yang digunakan. Pengelompokan pada level berpikir yaitu berdasarkan pada Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS), Midle Order Thinking Skills (MOTS), dan Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Pengelompokan pada jenis stimulus yaitu dilihat dari pertanyaan yang digunakan dalam soal-soal penilaian akhir semester. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan analisis dokumen. Soal-soal yang dianalisis adalah soal-soal matematika kelas VII pada penilaian akhir semester genap tahun pelajaran 2018/2019. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hampir setengah dari soal-soal yang di berikan pada Penilaian Akhir Semester ini merupakan soal Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) yaitu 48,57%, sedangkan soal yang tergolong dalam Midle Order Thinking Skills (MOTS) dan Low Order Thinking Skill (LOTS) berturut turut sebesar 31,43% dan 20%. Jenis stimulus yang digunakan dalam soal Penilaian Akhir Semester ini berupa penggalan kasus/situasi masalah, gambar, simbol,daftar kata, diagram dan rumus, tetapi jenis stimulus yang paling banyak ditemukan dalam Soal Penilaian Akhir Semester ini yaitu penggalan kasus/situasi masalah.

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are essential skills for prospective teachers in the 21st century. HOTS in the cognitive domain includes the ability in analyzing (C4), evaluating (C5), and creating (C6). In the process of mastering HOTS, one must know first what level of thinking skills he/she has. Therefore, this study aims to measure the achievement of the cognitive thinking skills of students of the Physics Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Samawa. The measurement used test instrument in the form of essay test, then the results of the thinking skills achievement for each cognitive domain of students divided into three categories (low, medium and high). The result of the student’s achievement of the cognitive thinking skills obtained by students were in low category of 55%, the medium category of 11%, and 34% in the high category for mastering lower-order thinking skills (LOTS), while for HOTS, 100% was in low category and it can be concluded that the achievement of students' cognitive thinking skills is still in lower-order thinking skills.

Education must consist of more than an accumulation of unreasonable facts and skills, and that modern society demands a highly developed critical awareness to overcome its increasing complexity. The purpose of teaching a subject is to teach the contents of the subject, not to teach thinking. We are all students in elementary and secondary schools. How long does our teacher offer for teaching thought? The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the thinking skills that are built in teaching in Islamic universities: survey at STIT Raden Wijaya Mojokerto. from the results of the analysis concluded: Teaching at Islamic universities (STIT Raden Wijaya Mojokerto) skills built by lecturers is 75% based on LOTS-Lower Order Thinking Skill. And 25% are based on HOTS-Higher Order Thinking Skill

This study analyzes an English Course textbook entitled Symphony to find out to what extent higher and lower order level thinking is used in the reading tasks. The questions central in this study are: how the composition and to what extent are reading tasks on the Symphony 1 Course Book for Senior High School contribute to build students’ Higher Order Thinking Skill? This descriptive qualitative research also adopted the cognitive process of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy as the instrument. Cognitive levels used for this research were remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating. Then, the researcher calculated the percentage and frequencies the cognitive level appearances from the total questions analysed. Then questions indicated of HOTS were analysed again by using instruments from Keshta and Sheif (2013) to know the variety of questions found in the textbook. The results showed that Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) dominate the reading tasks of the textbook. It shows LOTS were found 63% while HOTS 37%. It can be concluded that HOTS dominate the textbook which discourages students to think critically. Based on the findings, it is recommended that textbook writers need to advance HOTS in order to develop students’ critical thinking skills.

Background: One of the learning objectives is to develop a cognitive process dimension seen in cognitive learning outcomes. In fact, this has not been implemented optimally in the learning process. The Balinese culture-based biology learning model is seen as an alternative to developing the cognitive process dimension. This study aims to reveal the effect of the Balinese culture-based biology learning model through the cognitive learning outcomes of high school students in Denpasar City. Methods: This study was conducted using a non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. The research subjects were 144 students who were taken using cluster random sampling technique. The data collection instrument was in the form of multiple choices questions which were categorized into questions of lower-order thinking skills (LOTS) and questions of higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). Results: The results of data analysis showed that: 1) there was a significant difference in cognitive learning outcomes between the experimental class and the control class (p <0.05); 2) the Balinese culture-based biology learning model increased students' cognitive learning outcomes by 18.21%; 3) the Balinese culture-based biology learning model improves lower-order thinking skills (LOTS) by 8.44% and higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) by 17.92%. Conclusions: This study concludes that the Balinese culture-based biology learning model improves cognitive learning outcomes and has the potential to develop higher-order thinking skills of high school students in Denpasar City.

Developing measurement tools in the form of a question is a skill that must be mastered by educators and prospective educators. With the implementation of the 2013 curriculum, educators must not only be able to develop authentic assessments but questions that developed must also be able to encourage students to master lower-order thinking skills (LOTS) as well as higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). This study aims to determine the cognitive level of final semester exam questions at fourth-grade elementary school level on theme 3, theme 4, and theme 5. This study uses descriptive-analytical methods in which the researcher tries to describe the object (question item). The results obtained that most of the multiple-choice questions both in Theme 3, Theme 4, and Theme 5 at the elementary school level grade IV (four) at Gugus 2 Aik Dareq sub-district, Central Lombok are still at the cognitive level of low-level thinking ability (LOTS).

Analysis of Teacher Questions with the Framework of LOTS (Lower Order Thinking Skills) and HOTS (High Order Thinking Skills) on Indonesian Language Learning in Soppeng Vocational High School 3. This study aims to describe the form of LOTS and HOTS teacher questions at the beginning, middle, and end of Indonesian Language learning at Soppeng State Vocational High School 3 using the Bloomers Anderson Revision Taxonomy guide. The analysis in this study is a quantitative descriptive study. The techniques used in data collection are record and technique notes. The technique used to analyze data in this study is descriptive statistics. The results of the study indicate that at the beginning and end of learning there are 100% low-level questions (LOTS). At the core of learning, 89.72% of low-level questions and as many as 10.28% of questions belong to the category of high-level questions (HOTS).

Mathematical thinking is divided into lower-order thinking skills (LOTS) and higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). The LOTS is consisted of recall thinking and basic thinking, while HOTS required a more complex thinking abilities such as critical thinking and creative thinking. This research is aimed to develop a valid, effective, and practical HOTS-based worksheet for S-1 PGSD students who took Mathematics course in Universitas Terbuka. The application of HOTS-based worksheet is expected to be able to improve students’ learning motivation, as well as their ability in thinking critically and creatively in solving mathematical problems. The research is a developmental research, and the obtained data were analyzed descriptively. The subjects of this research were 72 students of S-1 PGSD program Universitas Terbuka Surabaya who took Mathematics (PDGK4108) course. The results showed that the developed HOTS-based worksheet fulfils the validity, practical, and effective criteria to improve students’ learning motivation, which can be seen that 77% of students (56 students) felt encouraged and motivated to think critically and creatively, 72% of students (52 students) showed the ability to solve problem based questions. Furthermore, 78% of the students (41 students) achieved 75 out of 100 score or more. It can be concluded that the application of the developed HOTS-based worksheet is suitable in teaching Mathematics. Kemampuan berpikir dalam matematika dibagi atas kemampuan berpikir tingkat rendah (low order thinking skills disingkat LOTS) dan berpikir tingkat tinggi (high order thinking skills disingkat HOTS). Berpikir yang tergolong LOTS meliputi berpikir memanggil (recall thinking), dan berpikir dasar (basic thinking),sedangkan yang tergolong HOTS meliputi berpikir kritis (critical thinking) dan berpikir kreatif (creative thinking). Penelitian ini bertujuan mengembangkan LKM (lembar kerja mahasiswa) berbasis HOTS pada matakuliah Matematika di program S-1 PGSD UT yang valid, efektif dan praktis. Pendekatan tutorial dengan menggunakan LKM HOTS ini, diharapkan dapat meningkatkan motivasi belajar mahasiswa dan meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis serta meningkatkan kemampuan dalam mengerjakan soal-soal matematika sehingga dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar. Jenis penelitian adalah penelitian pengembangan (developmental research) dan deskriptif. Subjek penelitian sebanyak 72 mahasiswa program S1 PGSD UPBJJ UT Surabaya yang mengambil mata kuliah Matematika (PDGK4108). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa LKM berbasis HOTS yang dikembangkan memenuhi kriteria valid, praktis danefektif, untuk meningkatkan motivasi belajar mahasiswa, ditunjukkan oleh 77% (56 mahasiswa) yang merasa tertantang dan termotivasi untuk berpikir tingkat tinggi (kritis, dan kreatif), 72% (52 mahasiswa) mampu menyelesaikan soal-soal yang bersifat pemecahan masalah, dan dari mahasiswa yang mampu tersebut ada sebanyak 78 % (41 mahasiswa) mendapat nilai lebih dari atau sama 75 dari skor maksimal 100. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa LKM bebasis HOTS yang dikembangkan cocok untuk diaplikasikan dalam pengajaran matematika.

The study focused on pertinent challenges and key guidelines in introducing and assessing students’ higher order thinking skills (HOTS) in a literature based English foreign language (EFL) curriculum. A curricular initiative in Israel, namely to integrate HOTS in the teaching and learning of literature in the high school EFL classes, prompted this study to measure its effectiveness on students’ abilities to understand and apply the HOTS in their reading and writing. This mixed-methods study dealt with the following research questions: Are HOTS innate skills or must they be purposefully taught in order for students to learn and to apply them? To what extent has 10th and 11th grade EFL Israeli students’ ability to apply HOTS to their bridging essays, after completing two years in the English literature programme, been improved? How accurately could students demonstrate an understanding of HOTS by naming them and by providing an example of how they could apply them in the areas of reading and writing? The overall key findings showed that; HOTS must be taught and practiced in order for students to learn and to apply them and that teaching students to use HOTS will improve their reading and writing capabilities in regard to higher order thinking as well as their understanding of specific HOTS. It was also found that students enjoy the challenge of infusing HOTS into a literature curriculum and expressing what they learn in their writing. They are consequently motivated to learn when they are challenged with a programme that infuses HOTS into an EFL literature curriculum. Implications of the findings are that the subject specific approach and infusion method for teaching HOTS are successful in the EFL classroom. The findings provide a novel contribution to the study of HOTS pedagogy within a literature based EFL curriculum programme. Recommendations for further studies are made, particularly on HOTS vis-à-vis weaker EFL students as well as on examining different writing formats, such as opinion essays, to determine if HOTS are transferring to other types of writing after students’ participation in this curricular initiative.
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Implicit cognition is an intriguing area of focus when one considers the impact of implicit memory theories upon each learner's cognitive vulnerability when framed through Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain. Specifically, consider the learner's cognitive understanding and movement from the lower order thinking skills, say from the Knowledge realm and Comprehension realm, towards the higher order thinking skills, Synthesis realm and Evaluation realm, or one of the revised domains to reflect Digital Age expectations. Although much is available on the different levels of cognitive achievement, the “in between” leaps in a learner's ability to work with the information in new and different manners may suggest that the cognitive vulnerability may impact the learner's implicit memory and the learner's movement between different taxonomic levels of informational understanding.

“I’ll Never go to School with a Nigger!” Dickie, an eighth grader in my social studies class, shouted vehemently as we began to discuss the Brown v. Board of Education case prohibiting segregation in public schools that the Supreme Court had decided a year before, in 1954. Dickie was right; he never did, dropping out of school two years later, before his Virginia public high school began desegregation. I was flabbergasted and appalled by Dickie’s assertion, only gradually coming to realize that my new profession, teaching, was heading on a rocky road to improvement. In September 1955, as a new, navy bride, I began teaching in still segregated Deep Creek High School serving the predominantly low-income white community of the Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia. Prepared as I had been by the mushy adjustment curriculum of my Indiana public schools (lots of attention to my deficient social skills, not much to strengthening my intellect), I had zipped through college. I added the teacher training sequence after I became engaged in order to have a saleable skill when I married on graduation day. My five education courses, most of which I thought academically and professionally worthless, required that I memorize the Seven Cardinal Principles, still the reigning dogma, and I did, believing they represented the fuzzy thinking I associated with public education. I lived in a totally white world, never having had a black friend, fellow student, or teacher. Under Virginia law at that time Deep Creek High School was also a totally white high school world, though surrounded by a black community. The drop-out rate was high: 140 students in eighth grade but only 40 high school seniors. When Dickie made his assertion about segregation, I was astounded both by the language and by the sentiment. We did not use such a term in my household, and, innocent that I was, I thought the Supreme Court had decided the year before in Brown v. Board of Education that public schools could not be legally segregated by race.

Two vital skills for an engineering graduate are the abilities to reason and communicate effectively. Laboratory work is one of the principle ways in which students exercise these competencies. In a typical undergraduate engineering course (particularly those at the freshman or sophomore level), laboratory exercises are often designed for students (rather than by them). They must simply follow procedures to find pre-determined results in order to “drive home” theoretical concepts. As a result, students are left with a poor concept of the purpose and power of experimentation, and consequently the laboratory experience detracts from rather than bolstering their critical thinking skills. A one factor at a time approach is often the default method for undergraduate engineering experiments, and while it is relevant for acquiring initial skills at the freshmen and sophomore levels, the approach may only promote lower level thinking skills. Even so, these experiences are pivoting in establishing sound engineering practices among students. In addition, statistical design of experiments could be explored for implementation for junior and senior level design courses. This project sought to provide an example of higher order thinking by performing a statistically-designed beam deflection experiment. The experimental objectives were to determine if load, span, geometry, and material affected the deflection of simply supported beams and to identify significant nuisance factors. Key nuisance effects included support stiffness, the reaction measurement procedure, and the effect of built-up members. In conclusion, the paper points out how undergraduate students could benefit from exposure and participation in such a design of experiments process even though students were not involved in this study originally.

Aim/Purpose: This brief paper will provide preliminary insight into an institutions effort to help students understand the application of the scientific method as it applies to the business discipline through the creation of a dedicated, required course added to the curriculum of a mid-Atlantic minority-serving institution. In or-der to determine whether the under-consideration course satisfies designated student learning outcomes, an assessment regime was initiated that included examination of rubric data as well as the administration of a student perception survey. This paper summarizes the results of the early examination of the efficacy of the course under consideration. Background: A small, minority-serving, university located in the United States conducted an assessment and determined that students entering a department of business following completion of their general education science requirements had difficulties transferring their understanding of the scientific method to the business discipline. Accordingly, the department decided to create a unique course offered to sophomore standing students titled Principles of Scientific Methods in Business. The course was created by a group of faculty with input from a twenty person department. Methodology: Rubrics used to assess a course term project were collected and analyzed in Microsoft Excel to measure student satisfaction of learning goals and a stu-dent satisfaction survey was developed and administered to students enrolled in the course under consideration to measure perceived course value. Contribution: While the scientific method applies across the business and information disciplines, students often struggle to envision this application. This paper explores the implications of a course specifically purposed to engender the development and usage of logical and scientific reasoning skills in the business discipline by students in the lower level of an bachelors degree program. The information conveyed in this paper hopefully makes a contribution in an area where there is still an insufficient body of research and where additional exploration is needed. Findings: For two semesters rubrics were collected and analyzed representing the inclusion of 53 students. The target mean for the rubric was a 2.8 and the overall achieved mean was a 2.97, indicating that student performance met minimal expectations. Nevertheless, student deficiencies in three crucial areas were identified. According to the survey findings, as a result of the class students had a better understanding of the scientific method as it applies to the business discipline, are now better able to critically assess a problem, feel they can formulate a procedure to solve a problem, can test a problem-solving process, have a better understanding of how to formulate potential business solutions, understand how potential solutions are evaluated, and understand how business decisions are evaluated. Conclusion: Following careful consideration and discussion of the preliminary findings, the course under consideration was significantly enhanced. The changes were implemented in the fall of 2020 and initial data collected in the spring of 2021 is indicating measured improvement in student success as exhibited by higher rubric scores. Recommendations for Practitioners: These initial findings are promising and while considering student success, especially as we increasingly face a greater and greater portion of under-prepared students entering higher education, initiatives to build the higher order thinking skills of students via transdisciplinary courses may play an important role in the future of higher education. Recommendations for Researchers: Additional studies of transdisciplinary efforts to improve student outcomes need to be explored through collection and evaluation of rubrics used to assess student learning as well as by measuring student perception of the efficacy of these efforts. Impact on Society: Society needs more graduates who leave universities ready to solve problems critically, strategically, and with scientific reasoning. Future Research: This study was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic; however, it is resuming in late 2021 and it is the hope that a robust and detailed paper, with more expansive findings will eventually be generated. *** NOTE: This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 18, 161-172. Click DOWNLOAD PDF to download the published paper. ***