P.E.S Card : Solving hots essay writing problems in history subject / Juwaidah Abu Naim

Writing skill for High Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) is one of the skills introduced by Malaysian Education Ministry in the school system; in Curriculum and Assessment Standard Documents (DSKP). Learning History, requires the pupils to not simply accept fact or information received without thinking but to evaluate and compare them. With HOTS, the students will have the opportunity to compare, organize, classify and identify the cause and effect based on their opinions. According to the data of final examination 2023/2024 result, it shows that 20 of 25 pupils of 5 al-Farabi class failed the History subject, as all of them did not answer the HOTS item in paper two of History subject. Therefore, this study was carried with the aim of improving Form Five pupils’ skill and to apply HOTS in constructing better writing skill, in paper two of History essay. Besides that, it is to improve teachers’ skill in teaching method by using this P.E.S card innovation. The researcher used the Kemmis and Mc Taggart (1988) action research involving 25 Form Five students. The data collection methods used in this project are diagnostic tests that descriptively analyzed and interviewed session that thematically analyzed. The result of this study showed that P.E.S card has helped the pupil create and aided them in writing better answer in a sentence of HOTS items. Thus, the finding indicated that P.E.S card managed to improve the pupil’s confident level in answering any HOTS items and used to improve the teaching method for teachers and became a useful way and guide to other teachers in teaching the student to answer the HOTS items in History.