The Assesment of High Order Thinking Skills of Undergraduate Students in Biology Education Department

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10.2991/seadric-17.2017.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

assesment, high order thinking, undergraduate students, biology education

Abstract

High order thinking skills include critical, logical, reflective, metacognitive, and creative thinking. They are activated when individuals encounter unfamiliar problems, uncertainties, questions, or dilemmas. Successful applications of the skills result in explanations, decisions, performances, and products that are valid within the context of available knowledge and experience and that promote continued growth in these and other intellectual skills. This research aimed to identify high order thinking skills of undergraduate students in Biology Education Department. This research was descriptive research (at the first academic year 2016/2017) in Biology Education Department, Universitas Lambung Mangkurat. This instrument was validated by expert judgment and tested toward 50 students. The results showed that the ability to analyze (C4), the ability to evaluate (C5), and the ability to create (C6) respectively were 31.81%, 69.88 %, 50.21 %. Overall the high-level thinking skills of students at Biology students is better.

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© 2017, 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  - Maulana Khalid Riefani
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BT  - Proceedings of the 5th SEA-DR (South East Asia Development Research) International Conference 2017 (SEADRIC 2017)
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