Effectiveness of Disney's NLP-Based Strategy to Improve Student's Higher Order Thinking Skills

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is person-excellence research as it explores the most effective behavioural process to achieve personal quality. The method incorporates either oral or non-verbal interaction to influence the human mind's system to quickly and effectively change behaviour. Such type of communication will change the experience stored in the human mind and modify the expected feelings, ideas, and actions. This present research is, therefore, aimed at exploring the feasibility of Disney's NLP-based strategy to improve students' higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). This study employed a pre-test / post-test quasi-experimental design involving 40 participant-students from a Malaysian matriculation college. The researchers used an intact group technique to determine the sample and divided the participants into two groups, namely the control group using conventional modules, and the experimental group using Disney's NLP-based Strategy. Instruments used are Disney's NLP-based Strategy and a HOTS test. The instrument used to obtain HOTS data was a subjective test in which the indicators were based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. The results from the data analysis represented the efficacy of Disney's NLP-based Strategy application on the students' HOTS. The findings of this study have shown that Disney's NLP-based approach can be used as a means to facilitate college lecturers in matriculation in nurturing competent students.