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Budapest International Research and Critics Institute-Journal (BIRCI-Journal)
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LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION ORIENTED HIGH
LEVEL THINKING ABILITY BY SETTING WEB-BASED
DEVELOPMENT
Syamsul Arif
State University of Medan (Unimed), Indonesia
achmadyuhdi@gmail.com
Abstract: Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is a competency that must be achieved by
students as stated in the 2013 curriculum. Indirectly, Unimed - LPTK which will create
graduates to become teachers has a central role in realizing students who have such high-level
thinking skills. Previously, when becoming a student at Unimed, high-level thinking skills of
students had to be honed and improved continuously so that when becoming a teacher, Unimed
graduates were able to train students to think high-level through HOTS-oriented questions. This
study aims to: 1) Describe the relevance of the semester final exam questions compiled by the
lecturer on the measurement of high-level thinking skills of Indonesian Language and Literature
Department students, FBS Unimed, 2) Describe the relevance of teaching materials used by
students to improve higher-order thinking skills, and 3) Developing a HOTS-oriented Indonesian
language and literature learning assessment course module at Unimed FBS Language and
Literature Department. This study uses a research and development (R & D) approach. The
stages that will be carried out in this study include: defining, design, develop, and disseminate.
The results showed that the learning planning tools made by the lecturers did not integrate the
achievement of students' high-level thinking skills.
Keywords: HOTS; assessment; learning; Indonesian Language; literature
I. Introduction
As a future teacher candidate, students of the Indonesian Language and Literature
Department, Unimed FBS must always hone four teacher competencies since studying at the
lecture bench. The four competencies are: pedagogy, professional, personality, and social. Based
on these four competencies, pedagogical competence is an ability that distinguishes LPTK and
non-LPTK graduates.
Pedagogic competence is the teacher's ability to understand students, make lesson plans, carry
out learning, and assess learning (Wau, 2017: 17-18). One indicator of teachers mastering
pedagogic competence is the ability to assess learning both from the aspects of implementation
and students. Assessing activities are one of the important activities in learning. Assessment is a
systematic process to determine or make decisions, to what extent the program objectives have
been achieved (Amirono and Daryanto, 2016: 1). The results of assessing activities can be taken
into account by teachers in improving the quality of learning.
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Assessment is a systematic process in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information to
determine how far students can achieve learning goals (Nurgiyantoro, 2016: 7). Assessment of
learning outcomes by teachers can be done in the form of tests, observations, assignments, or
other required forms. Assessments made by teachers must be based on certain criteria. This
indicates that the assessment is based on the measurement of the achievement of the specified
competencies. In addition, the assessment must be systematic and valid (Permen No. 23 of
2016).
The 2013 curriculum requires international standard assessment. This requires teachers to
make tests based on international standards. The test can relate to higher order thinking skills,
contextual assessment (contextual assessment), and PISA (program for international student
assessment). This demand is still not running as expected if viewed from the condition of the
teachers in the school. The Directorate of High School Development in the Guide to the
Preparation of International Standard Questions (2015) explained that most high school teachers
tend to only measure low-order thinking skills. The questions compiled by the teacher generally
measure recall skills. The teacher still focuses on knowledge theoretically not yet focused on
contextual. This reality is not in accordance with the demands of the 2013 curriculum.
These problems not only occur in teacher teachers in Indonesia, but in some countries. Based
on the journal Assessment Techniques and Students' Higher-Order Thinking Skills by Abosalem
(2016) revealed that in 2005-2006 as many as 86% of teachers in Abu Dhabi still measured recall
skills. The same data was also found in a national survey in Indiana in 2009 by Kiuhara, Graham,
and Havekn (in Smith and Szymanski, 2013: 17) found that 47% of teachers had not assessed
higher-order thinking skills. This figure indicates that the teacher needs to improve his ability to
make high-level thinking skills.
Learning in the 2013 curriculum is expected to help students think deeply and creatively
about a material. Therefore we need a tool that can improve higher order thinking skills in
students. Higher order thinking skills can help students improve their logical abilities and
reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and creation. This ability will certainly greatly assist students in
solving problems encountered in everyday life.
The various problems faced by the students above, of course, cannot be separated from the
role of the teacher in planning, managing, and evaluating the implementation of learning. As a
LPTK that produces future teacher candidates, Unimed has a central role in producing reform
teachers who are able to follow the pattern and flow of development in the current era of
globalization. As future teachers, of course they must be prepared at any time to change the
curriculum, so that teachers can become pioneers in realizing the goals of national education.
In connection with training students' high-level thinking skills, as prospective teachers —
students must first become accustomed to developing and completing questions about measuring
these higher-order thinking skills. The questions of high-level thinking skills in the context of
assessment based on the taxonomic cognitive level revision measures the ability to analyze,
evaluate, and create. Referring to the opinion of Sudjana (2016: 135-136) that the composition
between good low-medium-high category level has a ratio of 3: 4: 3. Center for Educational
Assessment in the Formulation of Higher Order Questions Thinking Skills (2017: 7) describes
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three cognitive levels, namely: 1) remembering (low level), 2) understanding and application
(medium level), and 3) analysis, evaluation, and creation ( high level).
One of the courses that supports students' ability to conduct learning evaluation / evaluation
is the Assessment of Indonesian Language and Literature Learning. This subject is a compulsory
subject with a weight of 3 credits that students must take. Through this research, a needs analysis
of HOTS-oriented course materials / modules will be conducted. Previously, an analysis of the
teaching materials for the subjects used by students in the course was carried out. The purpose of
the analysis is to find out the content and content of the material in the teaching material,
whether it contains material that supports students to think high or not at all
II. Research Methodology
This research approach uses research and development (R&D). This development design is
Research and Development or Research Development. This research begins with a preliminary
study of the exam questions prepared by the teacher to students. The development is in the form
of the development of Android-based e-learning media by using the Schoology application as a
learning supplement for assessment of language learning at the FBS Unimed. This article is a
Second phase as part of the research and development activities carried out which is the design
phase of the program. In this phase, it transfers the obtained information from the analysis phase
into the form of documents that will be the purpose of the developed media, one of the
documents produced is a storyboard document.
III. Discussion
1. Grouping Question Items Based on Higher Level Thinking Skills
Based on the categorization of odd semester final exam questions based on high-level
thinking skills, the following data is obtained.
Table 1. Grouping Question Items Based on Higher Level Thinking Skills
Multiple choice number
Essay
Total
%
Analysis (C4)
8, 11, 12, 13
4
5
20%
Evaluation(C5)
-
-
0
0
Created (C6)
-
-
0
0
Total
5
20%
The results of the analysis based on the high-level thinking skills of the final semester exam
questions found that the questions contained high-level thinking skills, namely as many as five
items. The questions of high-level thinking skills consist only of cognitive processes of analysis.
2. Setting Web Based Learning
The meaning of Schoology according to Aminoto, T and Pathoni (2014: 21) is a website that
combines e-learning and social networking. The concept is the same as Edmodo, but Schoology
has many advantages. Building elearning with Schoology is also more profitable than using
moodle, because it does not require hosting and managing Schoology (more friendly users).
Certainly, the features are not as complete as moodle, but for e-learning learning, it is very
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adequate. The features that Schoology has are as follows: Courses, Group, Discussion,
Resources, Quiz, Attendance, and Analytics.
The menus contained in the Schoology application include: a) Courses, with courses menu,
the users can create new classes, join classes that have already existed or browse through the
predefined class list. b) Groups which functions like the wall messages of the group members
and can also post on the wall messages. When joining a group, the users can search for parts of
the group that the users want. c) Resources are to maintain, to track the documents, files and
images that users upload in the class. d) Recent Activity is to display the latest news contained in
the account. e) Calendar, to display the calendar page that was posted earlier in the Recent
Activity. f) Messages are to send messages or view the messages among the fellow users, and g)
People is to be able to see a list of the users in a class.
Yuhdi (2018) explains the steps that can be taken in designing android-based learning using
Schoology applications, they are: 1) making courses, 2) using access codes, and 3) adding and
managing learning materials with course material. Thus, the design of Android-based learning
media with LMS uses Schoology in Indonesian phonology courses conducted at this stage of the
research described in the following sections.
IV. Conclusion
The conclusion can be drawn as follows: a) Courses, with courses menu, the users can create
new classes, join classes that have already existed or browse through the predefined class list. b)
Groups which functions like the wall messages of the group members and can also post on the
wall messages. When joining a group, the users can search for parts of the group that the users
want. c) Resources are to maintain, to track the documents, files and images that users upload in
the class. d) Recent Activity is to display the latest news contained in the account. e) Calendar, to
display the calendar page that was posted earlier in the Recent Activity. f) Messages are to send
messages or view the messages among the fellow users, and g) People is to be able to see a list of
the users in a class.
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