THINKING SKILLS EVALUATION OF TAXONOMY ANDERSON, IN ARITHMETIC SUBJECT OF THE CURRICULUM MALAY SCHOOL DURING COLONIAL ERA

Formal education exists with the establishment of vernacular schools in Malaya as well as education policies have also been established that are in line with the goals of the British to meet the social needs of the Malays. The curriculum of the Malay School education introduced by the British unknowingly has the element of thinking skills in the subject curriculum that has been introduced for each school, especially in the Arithmetic. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the thinking skills model that was applied in the Arithmetic at the Malay school during the British colonial period. The method used in this study is qualitative method by emphasizing data analysis on documents obtained from the National Archives of Malaysia. For the model of thinking, this study use the Anderson and Krathwohl Taxonomy models. The results of the study can be proven that there are levels of thinking applied in the Arithmetic syllabus such as the level of remembering, understanding, applying and creating which enables students to solve problems related to the learning problems of Arithmetic in Malay schools based on their standards.