Examining the Relationship between Self-Training and Self-Regulation with Academic Achievement of High School Students

Abstract

The study aimed to examine the relationship between self-training and self-regulation with academic achievement of high school students in Bandar Abbas. Hypotheses of the research are: 1. There is a relationship between self-training and academic achievement of high school students in Bandar Abbas 2. There is a relationship between self-regulation and academic achievement of high school students in Bandar Abbas. The present research is descriptive and correlation-based. The statistical population of the study is all male and female high school students in Bandar Abbas as 700 people. 200 of them have been chosen by simple random sampling method and Cochran formula as the sample. The data collection method in this research is field and questionnaire type. The following questionnaire was used in this study: learning self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ-L) designed by Black and Deci (2000) as well as the Self-training questionnaire quality at school made by Negvar and Vamokoro (2006). Cronbach's alpha test was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaires that the reliability of self-regulation questionnaire was 0.89 and for the self-training questionnaire was 0.96. Academic achievement in this study means the average of the previous semester courses. Pearson correlation coefficient test results showed positive significant relationship between self-training and self-regulation with academic achievement of students.