Enhancing Students’ Higher-Order Thinking Skills Through Guided and Free Inquiry-Based Learning

DOI

10.2991/icems-17.2018.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

higher-order thinking skills, guided inquiry, free inquiry

Abstract

The study aims to determine the effectiveness of guided inquiry and free inquiry to improve students’ higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). The quasi-experiments was conducted using non-equivalent pretest post test control group design. Simple random sampling was used as the sampling technique with 64 students. The essay instrument was designed to measure students' HOT on three divisions of Fungi, namely, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota. The results show a significant increase of higher-order thinking skills towards student ability categories from both guided inquiry and free inquiry learning model. However, the two models of inquiry do not give a significant difference of students’ HOTS and gender.

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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  - Zulfiani Zulfiani
AU  - Regiani Yunistika
AU  - Nengsih Juanengsih
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Enhancing Students’ Higher-Order Thinking Skills Through Guided and Free Inquiry-Based Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education in Muslim Society (ICEMS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 28
EP  - 31
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icems-17.2018.6
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