The Correlation Between Tbi Students Critical Thinking Skills And The Skills Of Writing English Essays

Sena, Gusti Raka and Edy, Sarwo and Hidayah, Jumatul (2022) The Correlation Between Tbi Students Critical Thinking Skills And The Skills Of Writing English Essays. Sarjana thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negri Curup.

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This quantitative study aimed to assess the fifth semester TBI students’ critical thinking skills and to statistically confirm the correlation between their critical thinking skills and their English essay writing skills. As the foregoing, this study tested a pair of hypotheses, which read H1: there is a correlation between critical thinking skills and English essay writing skills, and H0: there is no correlation between critical thinking skills and English essay writing skills. This study applied a correlational study design working on two variables, i.e. critical thinking skills as the independent variable (X) and English essay writing skills as the dependent variable (Y). The population of this study entailed 65 fifth semester TBI students at IAIN Curup, and the sample was chosen by means of a convenient sampling technique. This technique worked on selecting the sample members according to the sample members’ voluntary engagement realized into their willingness to fill in the given instruments. As such, there were 40 students who filled in the given instruments, and they were officially recruited as the sample. The data were collected using two techniques, namely a valid and reliable critical thinking questionnaire and an English essay test (prompt) accompanied by a valid and reliable essay rubric. Descriptive statistics and correlational-statistical analyses were operated to analyze the data. This study found two sets of data contingent with the study’s foci. First, the critical thinking assessment revealed demographic data which demonstrated that the fifth semester TBI students, on average, had a moderate level of critical thinking skills with the percentage of 67.55%. Second, as to correlate the two variables, the demographic data of English essay writing skills should be uncovered first. The fifth semester TBI students, on average, also had a moderate level of English essay writing skills with the percentage of 66.35%. Based on the two sets of variables’ descriptive data, the statistical testing of hypothesis revealed that there was a positive correlation between the fifth semester TBI students’ critical thinking skills and their English essay writing skills because the statistical computation indicated that rxy (0.26307) was higher than rtable (0.2573). However, such a positive correlation was identical to a low category because rxy (0.26307) was in the range of (0.200 – 0.399). Albeit being low in the correlational category, this study had successfully proven a positive correlation between the two variables. It meant that this study had successfully accepted the hypothesis one (H1) which read “there is a correlation between critical thinking skills and English essay writing skills”. After the conclusion section, this study proceeded to offer some suggestions for several related parties. Keywords: Correlational study, critical thinking skills, English essay, English writing skills, English essay writing skills

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