Developing a Test Based on the 21st Century Skills

Abstract

Teaching in Industrial Revolution 4.0 era addresses to create the 21st century skills, so there is a need to develop an instrument for assessing these skills. This research aims to develop a test of critical and creative thinking skill which fulfils the validity and reliability criteria. These skills are the dimensions of the 21st century skills. This research was conducted at one of the schools in South Sulawesi with the respondents consisting of 32 grade XI science students. Test form is an essay with the combination of some materials in physics. The development followed the following steps: (1) formulation of conceptual and operational definition, (2) designing the instrument, (3) expert justification, (4) trial, (5) analysis, (6) revision of instrument, dan (7) final instrument draft. The research results show that critical thinking test has fulfilled the validity and reliability criteria with three items of interpretation, three items of analysis, three items of inference and one item of inference. The reliability of the instrument is 0.82 on the first testing and 0.68 on the second testing. The creative thinking test also has fulfilled the validity and reliability criteria with three items of fluency, two items of flexibility, four items of originality, three items of elaboration and three items of evalution. The reliability of the instrument is 0.94 on the first testing and 0.74 on the second testing. These results show that the instrument of critical thinking and creative thinking have strong reliability and meet the requirements for proper instrument.