THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNING SKILLS AND STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A STUDY IN THE DISTRICT OF KERIAN, PERAK

The aim of this research is to identify the relationship between learning skills and academic achievements among the students of multi-ability in the Kerian district, Perak. It is also to identify whether there are differences in learning skill between gender, in terms of variations in achievements and location of schools. There are 180 form four students representing two different locations of schools involved in this research. A set of questionnaires comprising of two parts is used in this research. The first part contains the respondent’s demographic information such as name of school and gender. The second part contains question on learning skills. The Pearson correlation test is applied to determine the relationship between learning skills and academic achievements, t-test is to find out the differences in learning skills between gender and locations of two schools, while ANOVA test is used to find out the difference in learning skills among students with multi-ability. The results of t-test shows that there is no significant difference between learning skills among students of different gender and location of schools. Result of ANOVA shows that there is a difference in the learning skills among students of multi-ability achievements in academic. The results of Pearson correlation test shows that there is a positive relationship between learning skills and academic achievement.