Higher Order Thinking Skills Analysis in English Summative Test for Twelve Grade of Senior High School Student

Abstract

In this modern era, critical and creative thinking skills have become very important skills to face the challenges and competitions of the twenty-first century. These skills which belong to HOTS are needed by everyone without exception high school students. It makes HOTS becoming an important issue in the education field. HOTS implementation is not only important to be integrated in the learning activity but also in the assessment. The purpose of this study to figure out the presentation of HOTS in English summative test item and what type level of HOTS which mostly appear on English summative test for the twelve grade of senior high school student which designed by English teachers of senior high school in Kota Bengkulu based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy. This study used Qualitative content analysis as the research design in order to analyse the English summative test item by using checklist as the instrument. Five sets of English summative tests for twelve grades of senior high school from five different senior high schools in Kota Bengkulu were analysed. The result showed that all of the English test items mostly represented LOTS rather than HOTS and the HOTS category which mostly represents the test item from the five schools is analysing (C4).