THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNING RESOURCES UTILIZATION TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT WITH CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND ENGLISH SKILLS AS THE MODERATING VARIABLES AT STMIK AMIKOM SURAKARTA ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025

This research was aimed at investigating the influences of
STMIK AMIKOM Surakarta students’ skills at utilizing learning resources
moderated by ctitical thinking and English skills as two of parts to select
and come to a definite inference to become the chosen reference in their
efforts of increasing learning achievement.
This research was a correlational-descriptive one. It was descriptive
for it tried to get a definite description about related facts to such variables
as learning resources utilization (X1), critical thinking skills (X2), English
skills (X3) and learning achievement (Y); and it was correlational since it
detected how closed interactive variaties of a variable related to other
interactive variaties of one or more other variables. This research approach
was quantitative i.e. the numeric data of the 158 sample students (from 294
population at 5% df) were statistically analyzed –to analyze whether or not
the independent variables influenced the students’ learning achievement. In
addition, some cases that violated from the research hypothesis (taken from
open/close ended interview) were qualitatively analyzed.
The analysis done yielded 1) that learning resources utilization (X1)
positively and significantly influeced students’ learning achievement (Y) as
seen at the value of tcalculation > ttable (7,637 > 1,980) with p value < α (0,000
< 0,05); 2) that critical thinking skills (X2) acted as a moderating influence
towards the students’ learning achievement (Y) as seen at the value of
tcalculation (X1*X2) > ttable (2,474 > 1,980) and p-value < α (0,014 < 0,05); and
3) that English skills (X3) acted as a moderating influence towards the
students’ learning achievement (Y) as seen at the value of tcalculation (X1*X3)
> ttabel (2,048 > 1,980) and p-value < α (0,042 < 0,05).