Analysing Higher Order Thinking Skills on the Compulsory English Textbook for Tenth Graders of Indonesian Senior High Schools

Abstract

This study aimed to ascertain proportion of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) based on the revised edition of Bloom’s Taxonomy in the language skills and language knowledge of tasks in the textbook of “Bahasa Inggris of class ten employed in senior, vocational and Islamic senior high schools published by the Ministry of Education of the republic of Indonesia and its relevancy to the 2013 curriculum. By employing a content analysis research design, this study employed content cards as the instrument for analysing the textbook, in which two techniques were used to administer the data, namely content analysis and documentation. The data were analysed qualitatively using Brookhart including compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting and concluding. Results turned out that the proportion of HOTS in language skills is integrated well. In addition, the content of higher-order thinking skills in tasks of the compulsory English textbook of “Bahasa Inggris of class ten employed in senior, vocational and Islamic senior high schools” is relevant to the 2013 curriculum. It has fulfilled the standard suggested by the Decrees of the Ministry of Education. It is recommended that the teachers need to train students extensively on the implementation of the HOTS to achieve the goals targeted in the 2013 curriculum well.

The Policy to State HOTS in Basic Competence (KD) of 2013 English Curriculum and English Teachers’ Practice in Developing Indicator Achievement

“…There is an illogical order of thinking presented in the competency achievement indicators written by the teacher. The study finding supports the previous study that teachers still encounter problems in developing HOT indicators and basic competence in a lesson plan (Indriyana & Kuswandono, 2019;Sukmawijaya et al, 2020;.…”

Semantic analysis of literary works in selected song lyrics and poems at English textbooks for grade XI of senior high schools

“…The fact is the book from the Ministry of Education is also implemented HOTS. As Sukmawijaya et al (2020) stated in their study that the content of English textbook for senior high school is relevant to curriculum 2013 and the context of higher-order thinking skill is implemented. So, whether the books from Tiga Serangkai or Ministry of education, both of them are implemented HOTS and curriculum 2013.…”

“…It trains the students to have a higher ability in analyzing deeper texts, cases, questions, and others. Taking concern to the textbook content, textbooks should be designed from lower to higher competence (Sukmawijaya et al: 2020). Additionally, the use of HOTS is more concerned for the higher students, so it can be stated that the content of students' textbooks for higher students are more elaborative.…”

Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Based Reading Exercises in an EFL Textbook for the Second-Grade Students of Senior High School

“…Furthermore, Assaly and Igbaria (2014) claim that textbooks are one of the important aspects in developing students' higher-level thinking processes. The characteristics of a textbook should be designed from lower to higher-order thinking skills (Sukmawijaya et al, 2020). Suparman et al (2020) also support this by stating reading comprehension involves critical thinking.…”