The Development of Descriptive Text Materials Oriented to High Order Thinking Abilities for Seven Graders of Secondary Schools

Abstract

This research is a development research which aims to produce printed teaching materials in the form of descriptive textbooks oriented to higher order thinking skills (HOTS). This research is used as a student training material and a source of teacher teaching materials related to solving problems that require students to think critically and creatively. The product of this textbook development is divided into four parts, namely the book cover, which contains front and back covers, the first two parts of the book, namely, contain a copyright page, an introduction, a table of contents, general instructions, a columnhots, scientific columns, concept maps, and descriptive text learning objectives. Furthermore, the three content sections, which contain the contents of the book, are divided into four basic competencies of descriptive text for class VII SMP/MTs (seven graders of secondary schools), and the fourth is the final part of the book, which contains a bibliography, glossary, and author's curriculum vitae. This study uses the Research and Development method (R&D with the ADDIE Model. Data were collected using interviews by five Indonesian language teacher practitioners, then documentary studies to obtain the structure of language rules, then filling out a questionnaire to obtain the results of validation of material and media experts by two respondents and an implementation questionnaire. by three Indonesian language teacher practitioners The results of the development of HOTS-oriented descriptive text books for grade VII which have been validated by material experts with a score of 84% (quite valid) and media experts with a score of 82% (quite valid). implemented to test its feasibility on three Indonesian teacher respondents with indicators including: 1) content, 2) language, 3) presentation of the material, 4) graphics, and 5) HOTS components got 89% gain. Thus the HOTS-oriented descriptive text textbook for class VII SMP/MTs is declared very valid and suitable for use by VII grade SMP/MTs students.