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HOTS & Assessment Reflection
HOTS & Assessment Reflection
HOTS & Assessment Reflection
Reflection
Assessment
All teachers can recall a time when they observed a student have a breakthrough
learning moment, only to discover in the following days that the student lost track of the
details, couldn’t demonstrate the skill, or, even worse, had forgotten the lesson entirely.
The struggle for students to learn, apply, demonstrate, and retain what they have
learned is real. However, a growing body of research is demonstrating that
metacognitive strategies, helps students bridge the gap between learning and retaining
both content and skills.
Metacognitive strategies, specifically reflective assessment, are inherently formative in
nature. In his meta-analysis research, educational researcher John Hattie provides
evidence that offering students time for reflection results in their improved retention of
learned material, which in turn leads to improved academic achievement. Robert
Marzano’s prior research on strategies that improve learning also demonstrated a
strong connection between student reflection and improved achievement.
Reflection
The importance of higher order thinking. There is always more for high-ability students to learn
and room for them to grow. If students exceed curriculum level outcomes, tasks can be made more
challenging by targeting higher order thinking. This will set the conditions for students to extend
their learning.
The Higher Order Thinking Skills in class is a concept that notes on the different types of learning
and on the difference in the amount of cognitive processing. It is a way to help students think and
not just memorize and also improve their cognitive ability.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is a new concept of education reform based on the Taxonomies
Bloom. The concept concentrate on student understanding in learning process based on their own
methods. Through the HOTS questions are able to train students to think creatively, critic and
innovative.