Open AccessProbing students' higher order thinking skills using pictorial style questions
Author(s) -
Habiddin Habiddin,
E. M. Page
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
macedonian journal of chemistry and chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1857-5625
pISSN - 1857-5552
DOI - 10.20450/mjcce.2020.2133
Subject(s) - higher order thinking , mathematics education , style (visual arts) , reading (process) , psychology , cognitive style , order (exchange) , chemistry , pedagogy , teaching method , cognition , literature , art , neuroscience , cognitively guided instruction , political science , law , finance , economics
The ability to use Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) plays a substantial role in determining students’ success in future studies. Therefore, it is important that students’ ability in this skill is continually refined by training and assessment. This paper explores the responses of first-year university students’ to a range of pictorial-style questions in chemical kinetics that require the use of HOTS. 80 food science and 57 chemistry students (137 in total) at The University of Reading (UoR) participated in the study. The results showed that many students demonstrated limited ability to answer HOTS questions. The implications for the teaching of chemical kinetics, particularly at the university level, are discussed.