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

摘要

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.