ANALISIS DISTRIBUSI LEVEL KOGNITIF SOAL PADA BUKU TEKS BAHASA INDONESIA KURIKULUM MERDEKA EDISI REVISI TAHUN 2023 KELAS VII SMP BERDASARKAN TAKSONOMI BLOOM REVISI ANDERSON DAN KRATHWOHL

Abstract

This study aims to describe the distribution of cognitive levels of questions in the reading, observing, listening, discussing, and writing activities of the Indonesian Language textbook for the Merdeka Curriculum, 2023 Revised Edition, Grade VII of Junior High School, based on Anderson and Krathwohl's Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. This study used a qualitative descriptive approach through document analysis. The data consisted of 176 questions spread across six chapters of the textbook, collected through reading, listening, and note-taking techniques, and analyzed following the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña (2014), covering data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. The percentage of each cognitive level was calculated using Sudijono's formula. The results show that all six cognitive levels appear in the textbook, with C2 (Understanding) as the most dominant level (54 questions, 30.68%), followed by C5 (Evaluating) at 17.61%, C4 (Analyzing) at 16.48%, C1 (Remembering) at 14.20%, C6 (Creating) at 11.93%, and C3 (Applying) at 9.09%. The reading activity contains the most questions (92 items) and the most complete cognitive variation, while the writing activity is dominated by C6 (Creating). These findings indicate that the textbook has accommodated the development of students' thinking skills from lower-order to higher-order thinking, in line with the objectives of the Merdeka Curriculum, although the distribution across cognitive levels remains uneven.