Student’s Self-Confidence and Their Learning Achievement on Elementary Schools

Abstract

Self-confidence is a very important aspect for someone to be able to develop their potential. If students have good self-confidence, then students can develop their potential well. The purpose of this study is to determine the correlation between student's self-confidence and the learning achievement of Elementary Schools in Kota Tengah Sub-district. This is generated from the problem of the research. To find out the correlation, a quantitative research approach with ex post facto method was employed. This study involved students from all public elementary schools in the Kota Tengah Sub-district as the population of the research with samples of 80 respondents. Data collection techniques used documentation, questionnaires, and observations. Meanwhile, data analysis techniques applied the Spearman rank test and T-test. Based on the hypothesis test that has been done, it was found that there is a relationship of self-confidence with the learning achievement. Moreover, significant test of correlation also obtainsthe outcome in the medium category. Therefore, it can be stated that there is a correlation between student's self-confidence and the learning achievement on Elementary Schools.

The Mediating Effect of School Climate on the Relationship Between Academic Self-Concept and Student Engagement

“…The high level of academic confidence suggests the high belief of students in their ability to plan and carry out actions to succeed academically. This is also in line with various authors (Abdullah et al, 2019;Cole & Kinzie, 2018) stating that high academic confidence creates a feeling of calmness when approaching a difficult task. Having high academic confidence in students can help them achieve good learning achievement.…”

“…Having high academic confidence in students can help them achieve good learning achievement. That way there will be a process of change in students not only on learning achievement but also on the attitudes of students (Abdullah et al, 2019;Cole & Kinzie, 2018).…”

Development of a Rational Decision-Making Learning Model Based on Socioscientific Issues for Students’ Information Literacy. Is It Effective?

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