The Correlation Between Self-Efficacy and Academic Performance of Students in Learning English

Abstract

Efforts to improve the quality of education student achievement is something that must be considered. Students who have high potential should have greater opportunities for academic achievement at the level of education that is being pursued. The purpose of this study was to find the relationship between high and low student self-efficacy in the process of learning English in the classroom, especially for students at the SMAN 1 Gondang Mojokerto. The relationship between two variables in this study indicates that self-efficacy is one of the factors that influence students in achieving academic achievement. The result of the study showed that 14 students have good scores. In other words, 47% students have good self-efficacy. 16 students have fair scores. In other words, 53% students have good enough self-efficacy. From the finding, the pearson is 0,449, its mean that the high correlation and the sig. value calculated 0,008 smaller than 0,005 (p-value 0,008 < 0,005), it means that there a positive correlation between self-efficacy and academic performance. Positive correlation means that the higher in one variable can predict the other variable, the more students have high self-efficacy, the better the academic performance. In addition, the results of this study were expected to give some information about self-efficacy and academic performance. For teacher, were expected can be used as a references to develop a learning curriculum in schools. This can be useful for teachers when teaching. Teachers can provide insights to support academic performance. For students, were expected to have good self-efficacy, so that they can support the learning process in the classroom. For future researchers, were expected future researchers expected to be able to develop aspects more detail and clearly about self-efficacy and academic performance by multiplying the descriptors of each indicator of each research variable. Keyword: Self Efficacy, Academic Performance, SMAN 1 Gondang Mojokerto