The Effectiveness of Teachers’ Higher Order Thinking Skills Questions on Science Test Achievement of form Four Students

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10.2991/icems-17.2018.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

higher order thinking skills, questions, science test

Abstract

This quasi-experimental study aims to investigate the effectiveness of teacher’s higher order thinking skills questions on test achievement of form four students. Sixty (60) students from intact groups were assigned into the control and treatment groups. The treatment group were exposed to teacher’s higher order thinking skills questions and the control group with routine teaching. Varies higher order thinking skills questions were incorporated into ten lessons (one hour thirty minutes per lesson) in the treatment group and the treatment lasted for five weeks. The instrument used in this study was a Science Test for Higher Order Thinking Skills (SciTHOTS). The SciTHOTS consists of two parts which are Section A, objective questions and Section B, subjective questions. The SciTHOTS was developed based on higher order thinking skills questions which consist of three higher cognitive domains; analysing, evaluating and creating. The SciTHOTS was used as pre-test and post-test for control and treatment groups. The reliability of the SciTHOTS for section A is 0.79 and for section B is 0.83. Descriptive statistics and analyses of independent sample t-test were used to analyse data to answer the research questions. The findings show that there is a significant difference between the mean post-test scores of the control and treatment groups in the SciTHOTS. There was also a significant difference between the mean post-test scores of control and treatment groups for each cognitive domain; analysing, evaluating and creating in the SciTHOTS. The results revealed that students from the treatment group performed better than control group in SciTHOTS. This showing that students could answer questions of higher order thinking skills better when they were exposed to teacher’s higher order thinking skills questions during classroom instructions.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Sheela Kumari A/P Appanna
AU  - Tajularipin Sulaiman
AU  - Yuni Wulandari
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TI  - The Effectiveness of Teachers’ Higher Order Thinking Skills Questions on Science Test Achievement of form Four Students
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education in Muslim Society (ICEMS 2017)
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