Investigating the Implementation of Higher Order Thinking Skills in Malaysian Classrooms: Insights from L2 Teaching Practices

Ismail, Faridah; Ibrahim, Noor Aireen; Samat, Norhanim Abdul

doi:10.11113/sh.v9n4-2.1361

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“…Because language have positive relation to the high order thinking skills among the students (Ali, Mokhtar & Jamaluddin, 2017). Therefore, the students' needs guidance from their teachers to learn how to respond for HOTS questions (Chinedu, Libunao, Kamen & Saud, 2014) and teachers as educators need to be creative in seeking alternative teaching strategies and techniques to ensure the delivery method used by the teachers following the various levels of student intelligence (Yee, Ping, Yunos, Othman, Tee, Mohaffyza & Bc ,2019;Chinedu & Kamin, 2015, Azian, Fauziah, Noor & Norhanim, 2017.…”

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Enhancing Higher-Order Thinking Skills among Home Science Students: The Effect of Cooperative Learning Student Teams- Achievement Divisions (STAD) Module

Takko

Jamaluddin²,

Kadir³

et al. 2020

IJLTER

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This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the cooperative learning module using Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) techniques in enhancing students' HOTS achievement in the topic of the digestive system and food absorption. A quasi-experimental design was used in this study to gauge the effectiveness of the module. Purposive sampling technique was used to choose the respondents. The study involved 182 students who represented the experimental group and the conventional group. Students were given an intervention by using Home Science STAD Module for five weeks. Descriptive statistics and paired sample t-test were used to determine the effectiveness of the Home Science STAD module on students' HOTS achievement. The findings show ©2020 The authors and IJLTER.ORG. All rights reserved.students' understanding increased for the digestive system and food absorption topics. There was a significant difference in students' HOTS achievement between the experimental learning and conventional learning group. The finding shows the students were actively engaged in teaching and learning. Post-test result shows that the students were able to answer the HOTS question correctly and they can deliver clear explanations and justifications compared to the answers in the pre-test. Findings from this study revealed that the Home Science STAD Module was appropriate to serve as a guideline for teachers who apply and integrate HOTS in the teaching process. Further studies can apply cooperative techniques in other educational contexts in promoting HOTS among students.

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Enhancing Higher-Order Thinking Skills among Home Science Students: The Effect of Cooperative Learning Student Teams- Achievement Divisions (STAD) Module

Takko

Jamaluddin²,

Kadir³

et al. 2020

IJLTER

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“…HOTS, which include critical, logical, reflective, metacognitive, and creative thinking (King, Goodson & Rohani, 1997) have been associated with the key areas of development for 21 st century education (Greenhill, 2010). The cultivation of HOTS is also expected and seen relevant in English as a second language subject (Abdul Aziz, Ismail, Ibrahim & Abdul Samat, 2017;Collins, 2014;Mohamad Ali, 2013). One possibility where HOTS can be developed in a language course or subject is through literature integrated language lessons.…”

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A MOOC for Literature Integrated Language Classroom: Pedagogical Suggestions for the Development of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Journal¹,

Daud²,

Ali³

et al. 2018

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An important component of language teaching is the development of higher order thinking skills (HOTS) among the students. In some language classes, this is done in the literature component of the curriculum. However, in many circumstances teachers are not trained on how to integrate critical thinking skills in literature integrated language learning classes. Training teachers nationwide can be costly to a country if the traditional way of in-service training is adopted. One of the ways to address this problem is by providing online training programmes. A viable alternative platform for online engagement is the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) which has the potential to reach the mass. A training module would have to take into consideration the fact that different schools could be using different literary texts. Hence, the training module for teachers would need to focus on activities or pedagogical approaches rather than the text itself. This paper will focus on the aspects to consider when developing a MOOC for this purpose. This study will focus on Malaysian teachers who are expected to integrate HOTS into their literature lessons. When developing the materials, two important aspects that need to be considered are the components of HOTS and also the approaches that can be adopted. This paper discusses the approaches that can be applied to develop a specific aspect of HOTS. It focuses on the Malaysian teachers who are expected to integrate HOTS into their literature lessons.

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“…A few studies obtained a similar result showing questions asked by teachers were of mainly lower order thinking. Azian, Fauziah, Noor, and Norhanim (2017) conducted a study which aims to obtain insights related to the teaching of HOTS in L2 classrooms. Each of the twenty teachers was chosen as the sample for the one-session observation.…”

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The Teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (Hots) in Malaysian Schools: Policy and Practices

Chun¹,

Abdullah²

2019

MOJEM

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As a move towards educational transformation, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has established a policy on the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and its practices are being emphasized throughout Malaysian education system. However, due to a lack of meta-analysis, the types of pedagogical practices used by teachers in enhancing students' HOTS in the local context is unclear. This study used a meta-analytical approach to fill in the gap in literature on the pedagogical practices of HOTS in Malaysian classrooms. A total of 32 empirical studies were included in the analyses. Therefore, this paper aims at synthesising the pedagogical practices of teaching HOTS among Malaysian teachers. The findings offered a synthesis of HOTS pedagogical practices employed by teachers in Malaysian schools, which could be categorised as practices that promote and practices that inhibit the teaching of HOTS. The synthesis revealed that some practices that promoted the teaching of HOTS were brainstorming, constructivist learning, inquiry teaching, thinking map, and problem-based learning whereas some practices that inhibited the teaching of HOTS were teacher-centered learning and teaching lower-order thinking skills.

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Investigating the Implementation of Higher Order Thinking Skills in Malaysian Classrooms: Insights from L2 Teaching Practices

Cited by 16 publications

References 26 publications

Enhancing Higher-Order Thinking Skills among Home Science Students: The Effect of Cooperative Learning Student Teams- Achievement Divisions (STAD) Module

Enhancing Higher-Order Thinking Skills among Home Science Students: The Effect of Cooperative Learning Student Teams- Achievement Divisions (STAD) Module

A MOOC for Literature Integrated Language Classroom: Pedagogical Suggestions for the Development of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

The Teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (Hots) in Malaysian Schools: Policy and Practices

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