Fariza Higher-order thinking skills

During a unit about reliable source material and contemporary journalism, the teacher gives students three examples of recent newspaper feature stories and asks students to critique them. This assignment most closely aligns with which level of Bloom's Taxonomy?

• a) learning

• b)abstract thinking

• c) evaluating

• d)creating

What is Bloom's taxonomy example?

• a) Creating

• b)Cheating

• c) Concrete operational

• d) Formal operational

The ultimate goal of HOTS is for students to...

• a) be able to answer all the teacher's questions successfully

• b) develop purposeful questions of their own

• c) work together collaboratively

• d) recall information quickly

What are the top three higher order thinking skills?

• a) understand

  apply

  create

• b) create

  remember

  apply

• c) apply

  understand

  remember

• d)analyze

  evaluate

  create

What does it mean to be a problem solver?

• a) Asking questions and finding answers

• b) Following rules and instructions

• c) Remembering facts and figures

• d) Finding solutions to challenges or puzzles

Level of difficulty and level of thinking are two different aspects of learning.

• YES

• NO

Brainstroming is one of the problem solving techniques?

• True

• False

1. Do creative people come up with unique and original ideas?

• YES

• NO

When practicing HOTS in the classroom, most questions should be at one of the top three levels.

• YES

• NO

Students have to first learn facts and concepts (lower level thinking) before they can learn to apply them (higher level thinking). 

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• YES

• NO