Development of HOTS-Based Student Worksheets in Science Subject to Improve High-Level Thinking Skills of Grade V MI Thowalib Students

Abstract

Abstrak: Development of HOTS-based student worksheets on Science Subjects to improve high-level thinking skills of fifth grade students at MI Thowalib Pesagen. This study aims to 1) develop HOTS-based student worksheet teaching materials in science subjects 2) find out the feasibility of HOTS-based student worksheets in science subjects 3) find out the effectiveness of student worksheets in science subjects to improve thinking level skills student of class V MI Thowalib Pesagen. The type of research used is Research and Development (R&D), which refers to the ADDIE model. This development model uses the following steps: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. Instrumental data used were observation, interviews, questionnaires, and tests in the form of pre-test and post-test of students' higher order thinking skills. Product feasibility level data analysis and data analysis using the SPSS T Paired Sample T Test. Based on the results of this development research it is known that the product produced is in the form of HOTS- based student worksheets that meet very feasible criteria with the validation results of teaching material experts 95%, material experts 86.25%, learning experts 97.5%, and student questionnaires achieving 94.45%. The average value of the pre-test was 29.13 and the post-test was 83.47. Based on the results of the T-test using SPSS, the value of Sig 0.000 <0.05 means that there is a difference between before and after using the student worksheets. So it can be interpreted that HOTS-based student worksheet teaching materials are very appropriate and effective for use in science learning to improve high-level thinking skills of class V MI Thowalib Pesagen.

Keywords: HOTS, student worksheet, science