Open AccessThe correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of students descriptive text
Author(s) -
Dean May Julian,
Baginda Simaibang,
Mulyadi Mulyadi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jpgi (jurnal penelitian guru indonesia)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-3317
pISSN - 2541-3163
DOI - 10.29210/021002jpgi0005
Subject(s) - self confidence , psychology , simple random sample , mathematics education , correlation , test (biology) , descriptive statistics , sample (material) , population , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , demography , paleontology , chemistry , geometry , chromatography , sociology , biology
This thesis was concerned with the inquiry on the correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of the seventh grade students at State Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Sub-District of Muaraenim Regency. The problem of the study was to investigate the correlation among students’ learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability. The total number of the population were 474 students. The sample for this study was 83 students taken through a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected by adopting a questionnaire for learning motivation, self-confidence, and test for writing ability. Data were analyzed by using r-Product Moment and Multiple Regression. Finding showed that: (1) there was significant correlation between learning motivation and writing ability; (2) there was not any significant correlation between self-confidence and writing ability; (3) there was not any significant correlation between learning motivation and self-confidence; (4) there were significant correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of seventh grade-students at state Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Muaraenim.