HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILL QUESTIONS IN READING EXERCISES (An Analysis of Reading Exercises in Bright Book for the Seventh Grade of Junior High School, Published by Erlangga in 2022 for Kurikulum Merdeka)

This research aims to find out the composition and distribution of Higher Order
Thinking Skill (HOTS) in the “Bright” an English Textbook for Grade Seven
junior high school. This research used a descriptive quantitative method. The data
were obtained through analysis of every reading exercises that follow essay
question, based on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. The instrument used is an analysis
card and checklist table, the researcher collects and lists all of the reading exercises
in a bright book, then separates all the reading exercises based on chapters. HOTS
contained in the table form identified by the researcher. Analysis cards become
guidelines to make questions into a well-balanced portion of HOTS capacity.
Keywords utilized to identify the question to which it belongs either LOTS or
HOTS in table form. The result showed that the composition of HOTS presented in
the reading exercises is only 12% consisting of Analyze 7%, Evaluate 3%, and
Create 2%, lower than LOTS which take almost half of the book take 88% with
Remember (C1) the most dominant. As result shows, it is not enough if the teacher
just only uses the English textbook as a teaching tool to improve students' HOTS
ability.
Keywords: Higher Order Thinking, reading exercises, Revised Bloom’taxonomy