THE INFLUENCE OF READING LITERACY ON STUDENT’S CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Abstract

This study aims to determine how much influence reading literacy on Student’s critical thinking skills in The Social Sciences Education Department Mataram Islamic state University. This research is a quantitative type of research, with a sampling technique that is Purposive sampling. Data collection techniques used are questionnaires/surveys, observation. The data obtained from primary and secondary data is then analyzed by pre-testing the questionnaire instrument in the form of instrument validity test and instrument reliability test, and the hypothesis is then tested using simple regression. The results of this study indicate that the significance value is 0.00 <0.05 or T count 7.894> t table 1.671 which means that there is an influence of reading interest on students' critical thinking skills. The magnitude of this influence can be seen from the results of R Square of 0.518 or 51.8%, which means that reading interest affects students' critical thinking skills by 51.8%.