Increasing Students’ Higher-Order Thinking Skills Based On Character And Self-Concept Through Environmental Pollution Practicum

Abstract

Higher-order thinking skills are a main part of learning assessment process. Enable to apply information they just receive, use and create new knowledge or information. This research explores the efforts in increasing higher-order thinking skills based on students’ character and self-concept through Environmental Pollution Practicum. This research was quantitative in nature, with one grup pretest-postest design. Population was students from three study programs of universities in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the sample size of 120 students. Data were taken from higher-order thinking skills test, the students’ character, and questionnaire of self-concept, later were analyzed through N-Gain test. The results showed that there were increases of percentage analyse skill (C4) of 54%, evaluate skill (C5) of 53%, and create skill (C6) of 34%.. Overall, the increased percentage reached 45.5%. It is concluded that Environmental Pollution Practicum can improve the students’ higher-order thinking skills based on their character and self-concept.