Jurnal PAJAR (Pendidikan dan Pengajaran)
Vol 4, No 6 (2020)

IMPROVING TEACHERS’ SKILLS IN DESIGNING HOTS (HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS) QUESTIONS THROUGH TEACHER WORK GROUP (KKG)

Hiliyati Yus (SD Negeri 21 Pekanbaru)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Nov 2020

Abstract

The quality of teachers as educators becomes an important factor, one of which is the quality in designing HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) questions. This study aimed to improve teachers’ ability in designing HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) questions through teacher work group (KKG). The subjects of this study were 26 teachers. This study was conducted by using school action research methods conducted in several cycles. The results demonstrated an increase in teachers’ activities in the first cycle; the average percentage was 73% with a good category. Then, the average percentage in the second cycle was 91% with a very good category. It was also found that the average score of teachers’ ability in designing HOTS questions in the first cycle was 80.76 with good category, while the average score in the second cycle was 96.92 with the very good category. Hence, it can be concluded that carrying out KKG activities was effective to increase the teachers’ ability in designing HOTS questions.

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Journal Info

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PJR

Publisher

Subject

Education Other

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Jurnal PAJAR (Pendidikan dan Pengajaran) aims to develop and disseminate science and technology through the scientific article of research and study of concepts or theories as an effort to enrich the scientific knowledge in the field of education and teaching. Jurnal PAJAR (Pendidikan dan ...