Probing students' higher order thinking skills using pictorial style questions

Abstract

The ability to use Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) plays a substantial role in determining students’ success in future studies. Therefore, it is important that students’ ability in this skill is continually refined by training and assessment. This paper explores the responses of first-year university students’ to a range of pictorial-style questions in chemical kinetics that require the use of HOTS. 80 food science and 57 chemistry students (137 in total) at The University of Reading (UoR) participated in the study. The results showed that many students demonstrated limited ability to answer HOTS questions. The implications for the teaching of chemical kinetics, particularly at the university level, are discussed.

Higher Order Thinking Skills and Visual Representations of Chemical Concepts: A Literature Review

“…To gain in-depth chemical knowledge is a challenge for students in understanding the three levels of particulates from several chemical concepts. Chemistry teaching by focusing on visualization such as depicting chemical problems in a pictorial style (graphs, pictures, and tables) can reveal deep understanding as well as deepening unscientific understanding (Habiddin & Page, 2020). Visualization has great potential to stimulate students' HOTS in learning and evaluation as facilitating understanding of concepts by looking at pictures or diagrams students can form a stronger representation of the chemistry concepts being taught.…”

“…The research papers gathered through a systematic literature analysis demonstrate the favourable impact of visual representation on enhancing students' higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) in chemistry as illustrated in Table 2. Based on research conducted by Habiddin & Page (2020) states that students' ability to answer HOTS questions must still be trained again and must be familiar with questions with the HOTS type, and it is suggested that enhancing students' HOTS is crucial in all facets of chemistry education. Employing effective teaching and learning strategy can significantly bolster students' HOTS.…”

Development of a Two- Tier Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) Test Instrument Based on IBT on Chemical Equilibrium Material for SMA/MA Students

“…Soal HOTS merupakan instrumen penilaian yang dapat digunakan untuk mengukur kemampuan berpikir tingkat tinggi siswa serta dapat melatih siswa berpikir kritis dan kreatif. Oleh sebab itu, soal HOTS sangat penting untuk study kelayakan kerja di masa depan (Habiddin & Page, 2020). Wiwik (2019) mengatakan bahwa terdapat 3 prinsip penilaian berpikir tingkat tinggi, yaitu: 1) Menyajikan stimulus, 2) Membedakan tingkat kesulitan soal dengan level kognitif, dan 3) Menggunakan permasalahan-permasalahan baru serta tidak menggunakan soal yang melibatkan proses mengingat.…”

Interactive Instructional: Theoretical Perspective and Its Potential Support in Stimulating Students’ Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

“…In that paper, they accentuate the chemistry learning paradigm shifts from the lower order concern (LOCs) to high order concerns (HOCs) that needed efficient publicity. In our previous studies (Habiddin & Page, 2020, 2021, we investigate students' HOTS by using pictorial style questions and revealed that students' HOTS were inadequate and at need to be trained regularly and improved in chemistry teaching and learning.…”