Educational Reform emphasises Higher Order Thinking Skills
Afterschool
September 9, 2012
- Malaysia’s preliminary Education Blueprint, to be unveiled tomorrow, will focus on equipping students with Higher Order Thinking (HOT) skills.
- More than just being able to read, write and count, HOT skills enable students to think at a higher level. These skills will help them understand the facts, connect them to each other and apply them as solutions to problems in their work environment in the future.
- At present, students mainly learn through rote memory or memorisation and local examination papers focused mainly on lower-order thinking skills.
- In a previous statement, Dr Ranjit Singh Malhi, CEO and Senior Consultant of TQM Malaysia said that HOT skills are necessary as worldwide trends moved towards a reduction in acquiring content to what was really necessary.
- ”Today’s workforce does not require an employee to read the Encyclopaedia. Instead, people who survive learn how to learn because skills and knowledge are quickly outdated,” he added.
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