%0 Thesis %9 Bachelor/Skripsi %A Sani, Fitri Hidayati %A FBS UNP, %B Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS UNP %D 2022 %F repounp:36686 %I Universitas Negeri Padang %K Reading Literacy Questions %T Reading Literacy of Authentic Assessment to Promote Critical, Argumentative and Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Junior High Schools in Padang %U https://repository.unp.ac.id/id/eprint/36686/ %X Paradigm shift in the 21st - century learning system and educational process based on the 2013 curriculum leads to the changes in the assessment standard in Indonesia. One of the most essential studies in measuring students' language skills is Reading Literacy. Reading literacy measures a person's language skills and linguistic knowledge, critical, argumentative, and higher-order thinking skills in understanding the contents of reading texts. This research was intended to analyze all reading questions that used by teacher in Grade IX of Junior High Schools in Padang. This research is descriptive. It involved observing and describing the behavior of a subject, also using the written data from students reading literacy questions. The subjects of this research were five teachers from 2 schools selected. The data collection techniques were analyzing all documents that contained reading literacy questions given by the teacher to assess students' ability, transcriptions of all of the interactions that happened in the class, and to increase the data obtained from document questionnaires were employed. The research findings found that the typical type of questions teachers ask during classroom activity is remembering (C1), with 141 questions out of 340 questions. Then, the rarely asked questions are Evaluating (C5) with only 10 questions of 340 total questions and Creating (C6) with 3 questions of the total questions. So, it means that 84% of the total questions in the Lower-order Thinking category are found as the level of questions commonly asked by teachers in reading literacy assessments.