| dc.description.abstract | Higher order thinking skills are the ability to think not just recall, restate, or recite
but it reaches several dimensions of knowledge, including metacognitive dimensions. Students
who have higher order thinking skills will be have the ability of connect different concepts,
interpret, problem solving, communication, reasoning, and make the right decisions.
Identification of higher order thinking skills needs to be done through research and the results
are expected to be used as a reference to design of instructional strategies that are appropriate
to the characteristics of students. In this study, identification is done by measuring the ability of
problem solving, communication, and reasoning skills. The results showed that students' ability
to solve of well structured problem including satisfactory but the ability to solve of ill
structured problem needs to be developed. For communication skill, students are still not used
to expressing their ideas in scientific writing. For reasoning skill, although students are able to
reason on some aspects, but in general still not satisfactory. Therefore, it is necessary to
develop a proper physics instructional design and in accordance with the characteristics of
students to teach higher order thinking skills. | en_US |
