The Correlation Between the Students’ Learning Hours and Their English Scores
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING HOURS AND THEIR ENGLISH SCORES
By: Yelly A. Barlian
Abstract
The research investigated the relationship between the student’s learning hours and their English scores and how strong the relationship was. The participants consisted of 22 students of Product Design Dept. from a private Art and Design tertiary school in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The instruments used in this study were the variables of English mid-term test score and a questionnaire asking the students’ learning consistency outside the class, then both of those variables were calculated by the correlation formula and scatter plot. The finding result indicated that there was a strong positive correlation between the variables.
Introduction
There have been many studies made concerning the correlation between motivation and consistency towards the students’ achievement since it has been believed they have a very significant role in determining someone’s aptitude. Festinger (1957) explored how individuals become demotivated when there is a lack of consistency of behavior, values, and belief, and that such a condition can result in cognitive dissonance. Learning behavior consistency can be also reflected by the individuals’ learning hours. Being consistent requires frequently practice and mostly it is not easy to carry out especially for the students.
The goals of this research were to investigate how effective the learning duration towards the correlation between the weekly learning hours and the English mid-term score and how strong the correlation was therefore we could give a stronger conclusion regarding this phenomenon and motivate students to behave better in learning process.
Investigating the correlation of two or more variables is a type of non-experimental research. There is usually no manipulation of variables and it simply investigates the extent to which the variables are related and the direction of the relation. The strength
By: Yelly A. Barlian
Abstract
The research investigated the relationship between the student’s learning hours and their English scores and how strong the relationship was. The participants consisted of 22 students of Product Design Dept. from a private Art and Design tertiary school in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The instruments used in this study were the variables of English mid-term test score and a questionnaire asking the students’ learning consistency outside the class, then both of those variables were calculated by the correlation formula and scatter plot. The finding result indicated that there was a strong positive correlation between the variables.
Introduction
There have been many studies made concerning the correlation between motivation and consistency towards the students’ achievement since it has been believed they have a very significant role in determining someone’s aptitude. Festinger (1957) explored how individuals become demotivated when there is a lack of consistency of behavior, values, and belief, and that such a condition can result in cognitive dissonance. Learning behavior consistency can be also reflected by the individuals’ learning hours. Being consistent requires frequently practice and mostly it is not easy to carry out especially for the students.
The goals of this research were to investigate how effective the learning duration towards the correlation between the weekly learning hours and the English mid-term score and how strong the correlation was therefore we could give a stronger conclusion regarding this phenomenon and motivate students to behave better in learning process.
Investigating the correlation of two or more variables is a type of non-experimental research. There is usually no manipulation of variables and it simply investigates the extent to which the variables are related and the direction of the relation. The strength
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