Rosmalina, Ida and Naning, Zainal A. LOCUS OF CONTROL AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN PALEMBANG: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE. In: The 1st Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (SULE-IC) 2014, 16-18 May 2014, Palembang.
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Abstract
This paper is focused on the results of a study entitled ?The Correlation between Locus of Control and Academic Achievement of Junior High School Students in Palembang.? This investigation sought an answer to a primary question whether or not there was any correlation between Locus of Control (hereafter LOC) of the Junior High students in Palembang city and their academic achievement. The sample were 500 junior high school students taken from 7 junior high schools with three categories of school accreditations. Data were gathered by distributing LOC Questionnaire by Miller, Yahne, and Rhodes (1990) and collecting the students? documented academic achievement in their report books. The results of the study demonstrated that there was a positive and significant correlation between LOC and academic achievement of junior high school students in Palembang in that R-squared was .237 out of .001 significance level. The follow-up of this study is that: what could be implied from this result in relation to the new curriculum especially if we try to relate it to developing the characters of our students? Keywords: LOC, academic achievement, junior high school, character building
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) > L7-991 Education (General) |
| Divisions: | 06-Faculty of Education and Educational Science > 88201-Indonesian Culture and Linguistics Education (S1) |
| Depositing User: | Dr, M.A. Hartono Hartono |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2019 06:38 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2019 06:38 |
| URI: | http://repository.unsri.ac.id/id/eprint/13736 |
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