Development of Structured Essay Questions in Sound Wave Materials to Measure The Student^s Higher Order Thinking Skills at Senior High School 2 Purworejo
Fianti (a), Ma^rifatul Illa (a*), Ellianawati (a), Bambang Subali (a)

a) Physics Education, Mathematics and Natural Science Faculty, Universitas Negeri Semarang
Jalan Sekaran, Semarang 50229, Indonesia
*fianti[at]mail.unnes.ac.id

Abstract

Students in a school were expected for not only have a lower thinking skills, had higher thinking skills too. We need a measuring instrument to know how much student^s higher order thinking skills, one of them is structured essay questions. Structured essay questions could shown us the student^s higher order thinking skills and helped them to solve the question problems systematically. This research used the Research and Development method which produced structured essay questions. The purpose of this research were to know how the character of essay structured questions that valid to measure the student^s higher order thinking skills and determined the effectiveness level of structured essay questions in measured student^s thinking skills on sound wave materials. This research was held in SMA Negeri 2 Purworejo. The feasibility test was done with giving a product feasibility questionnaire to expert people and students. Product effectiveness test was done with calculating the correlation between student^s daily test scores on sound wave materials by using non-structured essay questions and student^s test scores using structured essay questions. The result of the feasibility structured essay test based on expert opinion was 87,65%, so the product was included in very worhty category. The result of the effectiveness test showed the correlation coefficient of student^s daily test scores using non-structured essay question with daily test scores using structured essay questions was 88,9% and included in very good criteria. So, it can be concluded that structured essay questions on sound wave materials are valid and effective to measure the student^s higher order thinking skills.

Keywords: Structured Essay Questions- Sound Wave Materials- Higher Order Thinking Skills

Topic: Physics Education