Creating category Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) exercise for high school students

Abstract

Abstract HOTS is an important aspect that must be developed for students in order to solving problems and learning mathematics that is not routine because HOTS requires the ability to think creatively and critically, so the purpose of this research is to develop HOTS questions categories of creating (C6) that are valid and practical and have potential effects towards students’ math literacy. The method of this research is development research with preliminary and formative evaluation stages including self-evaluation, expert reviews, one-to-one, small groups, and field tests. Techniques for collecting data used documents, walkthroughs, interviews, tests, and observations while data analysis uses descriptive. The conclusion from the results of this study is the HOTS exercises creating category (C6) which is valid can be seen from expert review based on content, construct and language assessment. It can be seen from small groups, while the potential effect on students’ literacy skills is quite good. This can be seen from the ability of students to analyze information about exercise, make ideas in designing problem solving and organize elements into new structures that may never exist before.