The Correlation Between Students' Engagement and Students' Academic Achievement in Learning English at 11th Grade of MAN 4 Agam
This research originates from issues related to the relationship between student engagement and their academic achievement Students have varying levels of engagement in lessons, especially in English. Some students also experience a mismatch between their efforts in learning and their achievements Additionally, students often find it difficult to express good engagement, as they sometimes only cause disruptions in class. Therefore, this study aims to determine whether there is a correlation between student engagement and their academic achievement in learninf English at 11th grade of MAN 4 Agam. This research is a quantitative study using correlational methods. The sample in this study consists of 37 eleventh-grade social studies students at MAN 4 Agam This research used the purposive sampling because based on the preliminary research, among the other classes these are the ones that have issues relevant to this study. To collect the data the instrument used in this study is a questionnaire (SEI) to measure student engagement and a test to measure academic achievement. SEI questionnaire measure the affective engagement and cognitive engagement with 5 subtopics indicators. The data were processed using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation (r) with SPSS 20 windows. The results of the study show that the relationship between student engagement and academic achievement has a strong correlation, with a coefficient of 0.676. based on hypothesis testing, oc was 0.05, so sig 0.00 0.05 and if ox 0.01, so sag 0.00 0.01. It could be concluded that Ho was rejected and H, was accepted. Stating that there was a significant correlation between Students Engagement and Students Academic Achievement This indicates that students with high engagement also tend to have high academic achievement, and vice versa Students who cause disruptions also tend to have high engagement because they try to be involved in the learning process, although the way they are involved is quite difficult to detect.