A CORRELATION STUDY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMNT OF ENGLISH AND IINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MASTERY

Abstract

This study aims (1) to investigate students’ achievement in English, (2) to investigate students’ mastery of Information Technology, and (3) to determine the correlation between two groups of data. The research applied descriptive quantitative approach and the samples are 43 students of Information System in the third semester of STMIK AKBA. The instruments are the final score of English and a subject related to information technology subject, Basic Data System. The result of the research showed that there are  42 (97.68 %) students passed the English subject and only 1 (2.32%) was fail. While information Technology subject, there  are 41 (95.12 %) students passed and only 2 (4.64%) students didn’t pass.  And, the data indicated the significant positive correlation between students’ English achievement and Information Technology mastery with  comparison of the significance is 0-033 < 0.05 and  between r test and r table (0.326 >0.30) .