ABSTRACT
The 21st century skills becomes the key of human resources’ competitiveness in the future, essentially about mastery of thinking skills. Therefore, a valid, effective and efficient learning model to improve students’ Higher Order Thinking (HOT) skills and also their specific competences is very significant. This study was a developmental research by using Richey & Klein procedures of Type Model II (model research) that was conducted in two phases: model development and model validation. Model design was accomplished by in-depth literature review and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with the experts and senior lecturers related. Model validation was formed with expert judgement, pre-experimental design, and applying confirmatory factor analysis procedures to assess the design of higher order thinking skills construct. The study results shows that the learning model developed, factually, fulfills the appropriate validity, effectiveness, and efficiency criteria. However, the model implementation to the subject sample confirms that students’ HOT skills and electronics competences can be improved outright.
