Cognitive differences between male and female students in higher order thinking skills

Abstract

Today gender issues about male and female have been highlighted. Especially in education, education must treat male and female equally. Education has many abilities who can make a difference between male and female. This research has an aim to analyze the differences between male and female student's abilities of higher order thinking skills. The method of this research is the quantitative method and followed by the analysis. The instrument is the essay question. The samples were taken randomly to represent the population. The results of this research indicate that male and female have the differences average at higher order thinking skills. Female students have a higher percentage than male in 4 indicators which is different, organizing, attributing, and checking but male students have a higher percentage just in 1 indicator than female which is producing indicators.