HOTS: Overview

• Higher Order Thinking or better known as Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTs)  is a concept of Education Reform
• Involves complex thinking that goes beyond basic recall of facts.
• Crucial to better prepare students for the challenges of adult work and daily life and advanced academic work
• Based on learning taxonomies such as Bloom’s Taxonomy,  SOLO Taxonomy and/or Barrett’s Taxonomy of Reading Comprehension.
• These taxonomies  are classification of levels of intellectual behaviour  which provide teachers clear learning objectives to be established in their pedagogical activities.

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