Training on development of HOTS questions in Physics and Chemistry for KRPs of Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra State

Abstract

One aim of education for the 21st Century Skills is to cultivate the problem solving, critical thinking and higher order thinking skills (HOTS). Higher order thinking skill basically means a thinking that is taking place in the higher levels of the hierarchy of cognitive processing. The most widely accepted hierarchical arrangement of this sort in education is the Bloom Taxonomy, viewing a continuum of thinking skills starting with knowledge-level thinking to evaluation-level of thinking. Higher order thinking skills are the ability to think not just recall, restate, or recite but it reaches several dimensions of knowledge, including metacognitive dimensions. Students who have higher order thinking skills will be have the ability of connect different concepts, interpret, problem solving, communication, reasoning, and make the right decisions. The National Educational Policy also envisages the development of higher-order thinking capacities, problem-solving abilities. It further stresses on the fact that, aim of assessment in the culture of our schooling system should be testing the higher order skills. Hence through this program development of items based on higher order skills in Physics will be done and the items will be tested also