Analysis of Student High Order Thinking Skill on General Biology Course in Mathematics and Natural Science Faculty of Medan State University Corry Sepvia Br Pasaribu(a), Herbert Sipahutar(b), Tumiur Gultom(b)
Biology Education Postgraduate, Universitas Negeri Medan, corrysepviabilbio[at]gmail.com(a), Biology Education Postgraduate, Universitas Negeri Medan (b)
Abstract
The aim of this study is to find out the level of student high order thinking skill (HOTS) on general biology course in Mathematic and Natural Science Faculty of Medan State University. This research belongs to ex post facto research (non-experimental design) with 440 total population. The purposive sampling is used to take 141 students who came from 6 class such as biology bilingual, chemistry bilingual, natural science bilingual, biology C regular, chemistry D regular and natural science B regular. Samples were tested by using HOTS instrument. The instrument consists of 30 high order thinking question totally (C4, C5 and C6 bloom taxonomy hierarchy) about reproduction, diversity and nutrition. The data shows that the level of student HOTS is minimally skilled with mean score 36.31 and standard deviation 13.08. ANOVA test is used to find the significant difference of HOTS mean score between group sample. It is found the sig.value is 0.163 (Sig. value > 0.05), so the HOTS mean score between groups is same significantly.
