Development of the assessment model based on order thinking skills (HOTS) to measure students' critical thinking

Abstract

This study aims to develop the assessment model based on HOTS to measure students' critical thinking. This research uses the Research and Development (R&D) method. The instruments used in this study were assessment instruments and validation sheets of media and material experts. The characteristics of this study are the assessment instruments that measure the ability of students to solve problems that require high-level thinking skills and critical thinking. The subjects of this research are grade 8 students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surakarta. The results showed that the assessment model developed was included in the good category used for the learning process. This is shown, the results of the validation of the material experts obtained percentage of the aspects of feasibility content is 0,92, percentage of the aspects of feasibility of construction is 0,82 and percentage of te aspects of language worthiness is 0.82. The results of the validation of the media experts showed a mean score of 3.6. The characteristics of instruments regarding distinguishing features and difficulty levels indicate the percentage of 0.39 and 0.49. Based on the results of student work using the HOTS-based assessment model in SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surakarta shows that the ability critical thinking is still in the good enough category.