The Correlation Between Students’ Growth Mindset and Students’ GPA Achievement in The English Department of STKIP Yayasan Abdi Pendidikan Payakumbuh

Abstract

Students who experience difficulties in learning and do not try to solve them will have a low Grade Point Average (GPA). On the other hand, students who attend lectures well will have a high GPA. The aim of this research is to find out whether there is a positive correlation between the development of students' mindsets and their GPA achievement. This research includes all students English class in the STKIP Yayasan Abdi Pendidikan, with a total of 52 students. As tools, this research uses questionnaires and official documents. The data for the official document is a list of students' GPA scores, while the data for the questionnaire is the student answer sheet on the questionnaire about growth mindset. After analyzing the questionnaire with a Likert scale, the researcher used the Spearman rank order formula to analyze the correlation. The results show that rxy is greater than rtable (0.37 > 0.301). Based on the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that there is a moderate positive relationship between students' growth mindset and students' GPA achievement in the English department at STKIP Yayasan Abdi Pendidikan Payakumbuh. This means that a growth mindset has a moderate influence on students' GPA achievement.
Keywords: Growth Mindset, Grade Point Average (GPA).