Reading Assessment to Enhance Critical Thinking, Argumentative Thinking, and Higher Order Thinking Skills in Junior High School
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211129.023How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- reading assessment; critical thinking; argumentative; higher-order thinking
- Abstract
Reading assessment is used to measure students’ ability to comprehend a text. The assessment for understanding explicit information can be categorized as low-level reading ability, while understanding implied information can be categorized as high-level reading ability. This study aims to reveal how reading assessment can improve critical thinking, argumentative, and high-level thinking skills in junior high school. The study was conducted in two SMPNs in Padang City, namely SMPN X and SMP Negeri Y. The reading assessments given to the students in these two schools were analyzed, and English teachers who taught at these two schools were interviewed to obtain information about how teachers conduct reading assessments to improve students’ reading skills of Junior high school students to think critically, argumentatively, and in higher-order level. The findings of this research are reading assessments in the form of expressing the meaning of a word or phrase, revealing the content of a message, finding the implied meaning, finding an overview of the text content, and finding specific information enhance critical thinking, argumentative, and high-level thinking skills of students.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - M. Zaim AU - Yetty Zainil AU - Fitrawati PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/30 TI - Reading Assessment to Enhance Critical Thinking, Argumentative Thinking, and Higher Order Thinking Skills in Junior High School BT - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 142 EP - 147 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211129.023 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211129.023 ID - Zaim2021 ER -