Analysis of students’ errors in solving Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) problems for the topic of fraction
Problem-solving is an activity that can generate Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) among students. However, only some of the students are capable of solving problems and some are having difficulties. The difficulties have caused students to make various kinds of errors. Hence, this study conducted...
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| description | Problem-solving is an activity that can generate Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) among students. However, only some of the students are capable of solving problems and some are having difficulties. The difficulties have caused students to make various kinds of errors. Hence, this study conducted is to identify and analyze students’ errors in solving problems that involve HOTS in the topic of Fraction. The samples consisted of 96 Form One students of a secondary school in Johor. The instrument of the study consisted of a set of test questions that contained four HOTS questions. The errors were analyzed according to Newman’s Error Analysis Model consisting of reading, comprehension, transformation, process skills and encoding. The results showed that students frequently made errors in encoding (27.58%), followed by process skills (27.33%), transformation (24.17%) and comprehension (20.92%). The findings showed that students faced problems to correlate the information and implementation of strategies used in solving mathematical problems involving HOTS. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-578112021-08-17T01:54:19Z http://eprints.utm.my/57811/ Analysis of students’ errors in solving Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) problems for the topic of fraction Abdullah, Abdul Halim Zainal Abidin, Nur Liyana Ali, Marlina LB Theory and practice of education Problem-solving is an activity that can generate Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) among students. However, only some of the students are capable of solving problems and some are having difficulties. The difficulties have caused students to make various kinds of errors. Hence, this study conducted is to identify and analyze students’ errors in solving problems that involve HOTS in the topic of Fraction. The samples consisted of 96 Form One students of a secondary school in Johor. The instrument of the study consisted of a set of test questions that contained four HOTS questions. The errors were analyzed according to Newman’s Error Analysis Model consisting of reading, comprehension, transformation, process skills and encoding. The results showed that students frequently made errors in encoding (27.58%), followed by process skills (27.33%), transformation (24.17%) and comprehension (20.92%). The findings showed that students faced problems to correlate the information and implementation of strategies used in solving mathematical problems involving HOTS. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/57811/1/AbdulHalimAbdullah2015_AnalysisofStudentsErrorsinSolvingHigherOrder.pdf Abdullah, Abdul Halim and Zainal Abidin, Nur Liyana and Ali, Marlina (2015) Analysis of students’ errors in solving Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) problems for the topic of fraction. Asian Social Science, 11 (21). pp. 133-142. ISSN 1911-2017 ttp://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v11n21p133 DOI:10.5539/ass.v11n21p133 |
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| title_full | Analysis of students’ errors in solving Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) problems for the topic of fraction |
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| title_short | Analysis of students’ errors in solving Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) problems for the topic of fraction |
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