Open AccessSTUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN SOLVING HIGHER-ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS) READING COMPREHENSION SECTION AT SMA 1 TAKENGON
Author(s) -
Yunie Amalia Rakhmyta,
Alif Maulidiyah
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal as-salam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2549-5593
pISSN - 2528-1402
DOI - 10.37249/assalam.v5i2.313
Subject(s) - nonprobability sampling , vocabulary , mathematics education , reading comprehension , psychology , comprehension , documentation , higher order thinking , sma* , section (typography) , inference , reading (process) , computer science , teaching method , artificial intelligence , linguistics , cognitively guided instruction , population , philosophy , demography , algorithm , sociology , programming language , operating system
This study aims to determine students’ difficulties in solving Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions and their dominance due to the reading comprehension section at SMAN 1 Takengon. This study was delivered through a qualitative descriptive research design. Twenty-two students were elected to be research subjects based on purposive sampling. The instruments were documentation and interview. Data analyzed by adopting Miles and Huberman’s theory stepped into three-phase; data reduction, data display, and conclusion. As a result, the percentages showed several students’ difficulties; first in making inferences about 48%, second, determining the main idea about 26%, third, in detailed information about 18%, last, in understanding vocabulary about 8%. In conclusion, the dominant difficulty is making an inference.