The Imperative of LOGIC in nurturing students’ Higher Order Thinking Skills

Abstract

Along with the implementation of the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology program commonly known as Merdeka Belajar, the government is encouraging differentiated learning to facilitate students' freedom in learning. Meanwhile, what teachers do to facilitate Merdeka Belajar is assignments or project work. To achieve the goal of this assignment and project, students are engaged in active learning. However, the ultimate goal of learning is not the product but the mental process that occurs behind it. This study aims to develop a learning model to foster students' higher order thinking skills with a structured scaffolding in the form of the acronym LOGIC. Starting with Listen or listening to clear instruction, overview, prompting questions. Then followed by Observe or observing the visible inputs in video, picture, graph, or chart. Gather means collecting information through active discussion with peers. Identify which means identifying all the necessary information and finally Create or producing something. These steps are arranged in such a way as to provide guidance to students so that they are accustomed to developing critical thinking skills before finally producing a project. Research data is analyzed and validated to obtain valid and reliable results. Though this research implement the learning model in higher education, pragmatically this design can be used for the learning process at various levels of education units from elementary school to tertiary education. This learning model is also not limited to language teaching, in all subjects, both STEM and Non-STEM, it can also be applied.