Higher order thinking skills is an important aspect in
teaching and learning especially at higher education institutions. Thinking
skills practices are part of the generic skills that should be infused in all
technical subjects. Students with higher order thinking skills are able to
learn, improve their performance and reduce their weaknesses. Hence, the purpose
of this research was to identify the level of Marzano Higher Order Thinking Skills
among technical education
students in the Faculty of Technical Education (FPTek), Universiti
Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. A total of 158 students of FPTek were randomly
selected as sample. A set of questionnaires adapted from Marzano Rubrics for
Specific Task or Situations (1993) was used as research instrument. This is a
quantitative research and the gathered data was
analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS)
software. The findings indicated that students perceived they have moderate
level for investigation, experimental inquiry,
comparing, deducing, constructing support, inducing and invention.
However, decision making, problem solving, error analyzing, abstracting,
analyzing perspectives and classifying
are at low level. The Eta analysis indicated that there is a
very low positive relationship between the level of Marzano Higher Order
Thinking Skills and gender, academic achievement as well
as socio economic status. Besides that, the findings also
showed
that there is no statistically significant difference in
gender, academic achievement and socio economic status on the level of Marzano
Higher Order Thinking Skills. However, there is
significant difference in socio economic status on the level
of decision making.
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