The Influence of Psychosocial Learning Environment on HOTS in Statistic Education

Abstract

The present study investigates the relationships between psychosocial learning environment and higher order thinking skills (HOTS) ability in statistic education. Psychosocial learning environment construct were represented by five dimensions; 1) attitude toward students; 2) autonomy-power sharing; 3) student-student relationship; 4) student interest-motivation; and 5) class organization. The target population is a total of 380 students from Diploma in Statistics at one of the largest pioneer university in Malaysia. By using cluster sampling, 285 students were selected as sample for quantitative study. The study instruments were adapted from College and Classroom Environment Inventory Learning and Performance subscale from the Motivated Strategies of Learning Questionnaire for College students, and Dimension of Learning rubrics. The gathered data were analyzed using Smart Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). The findings revealed that significant direct relationships existed between attitude towards students (ATS) and higher order thinking skills. On the other hand, the result also found that there is enough evidence to support the positive relationship between class organisation (CO) and student’ higher order thinking skills.