@article{article_641969, title={EVALUATING THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADE 6 TO 8 BY USING BLOOM’S TAXONOMY}, journal={IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education}, volume={5}, pages={361–369}, year={2020}, DOI={10.18768/ijaedu.593884}, url={https://izlik.org/JA52MP88LY}, author={Sahito, Nasreen}, keywords={Higher Order Thinking Skills,Curriculum,SLOs,21st century skills,Critical Thinking}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, ’sans-serif’;" xml:lang="en-us">Critical
thinking, problem solving and logical reasoning are considered as the 21 <sup>st </sup>
century learning skills. These higher order thinking skills (HOTS) can only be
developed through curriculum and teaching and learning strategies, because
it  include critical, logical,
reflective, metacognitive, and creative thinking. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, ’sans-serif’;" xml:lang="en-us">The
purpose of this study is to analyze National Curriculum 2006 (Pakistan) of
Computer Education in order to observe that how much it is helpful for the
development of higher order thinking skills among the students and whether it
has focused on merging 21st century interdisciplinary themes with core contents
of the subject. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, ’sans-serif’;" xml:lang="en-us">The
National Curriculum2006 (Pakistan) of Computer Education from grade VI to VIII
was analyzed using the revised blooms taxonomy. Out of six levels, upper three
levels Analyzing, Evaluating and Creating were considered as HOTS. Frequency
and Proportions were calculated for Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) meeting
HOTS criteria. P21 framework was used for checking the contents and SLOs which
merging the 21 <sup>st </sup> century interdisciplinary themes in curriculum. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, ’sans-serif’;" xml:lang="en-us">Overall
only 9% of the SLOs in curriculum met the requirement of HOTS. There was a
slightly increasing trend was observed from grade 6 to 8. Grade 6 had 6%, grade
7 had 9% and grade 8 had 11% of HOTS. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, ’sans-serif’;" xml:lang="en-us">However
overall proportion of SLOs meeting HOTS was low but an increasing trend was
observed from grade VI to grade VIII. In order to develop HOTS among the
students, there is a need to redesign the curriculum, teachers should be
trained accordingly and assessment standards should also be meeting with
curriculum needs. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, ’sans-serif’;" xml:lang="en-us">It
will help in the re-designing of National Curriculum for Computer Education
Grade VI-VIII. This study can be expended to analyze the National Curriculum
for other subjects. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={15}