Competency Profile of Junior High School Teachers in Developing High Order Thinking Questions of Science Subject

Abstract

This research aim is to describe the ability profile of junior high school teachers in developing high-level thinking questions for science subjects. This research was a quantitative descriptive study of junior high school teachers from Java and Eastern Indonesia. Data was obtained by collecting questions from the teacher’s biopsy prepared for five working days in the workshop. Data was analyzed descriptively quantitatively referring to criteria related to cognitive levels and ruled for writing the correct questions. It can be described that 71% of questions were categorized as high-level thinking problems at the implementation level, 61% at the analysis level, 53% at the evaluation level, and 38% at the creativity level. Based on overall aspect of questions, only 54% met the criteria for writing the correct questions. Keywords—junior high school’s teachers, HOTs questions,