Correlation Of Critical Thinking Ability, Reading Motivation, And Student's Writing Skills (Study On Learning To Write Observation Reports In Sengkang District Junior High School)

Abstract

This study aims to determine the relationship between: (1) critical thinking skills and observation report writing skills, (2) reading motivation and observation report writing skills, (3) critical thinking skills and reading motivation together with observation report writing skills. . This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 8 Sengkang, SMP Negeri 14 Sengkang, and SMP Negeri 16 Sengkang. The research method used is a correlational survey method. The population of this study were all students of class VIII SMP Negeri Sengkang. A sample of 170 people was taken by means of Cluster Random Sampling. The instruments for collecting data were a test of writing observation report skills, a test of critical thinking skills, and a reading motivation questionnaire. The analysis technique used is statistical regression and correlation (simple and multiple). The results of the analysis show that: (1) there is a positive relationship between critical thinking skills and writing observational report skills (ry1 = 0.39 at the level of significance = 0.05 with N = 170, rt = 0.1497, and t1 = 5, 42 tt = 1.645); (2) there is a positive relationship between reading motivation and observational report writing skills (ry2 = 0.15 at the level of significance = 0.05 with N = 170, rt = 0.1497, and t1 = 1.99 tt = 1.645) ; (3) there is a positive relationship between critical thinking ability and reading motivation together with writing observation report skills (Ry12 = 0.41 at the significance level = 0.05 with N = 170, Rt = 0.1497, and F0 = 16.50 F1 = 3.0532). Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that together critical thinking skills and reading motivation contributed significantly (16.81%) to the skill of writing observation reports. This shows that these two variables can be good predictors of observation report writing skills.