Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: The Correlation Between Students’ Readingself Efficacy and Final Grades in Academic Reading Class

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN
STUDENTS’ READING SELF EFFICACY AND FINAL GRADES
IN ACADEMIC READING CLASS

F. X. Paula Era Lina Hadomi

Abstract
This study aimed to find out the correlation between the students’ reading self efficacy and final
grades in Academic Reading class of Language and Art Department Satya Wacana Christian
University. Forty three students of 2009, who already took the class, were asked to fill the
questionnaire as the participants. The questionnaire was adapted from Li and Wang’s (2010)
questionnaire on Reading Self Efficacy part, with several adjustments to make it appropriate with
this study. The final grades were from the lecturers who taught the class. All the data then
analyzed using SPSS 16.0. The data were obtained from Spearman’s rho correlation analysis.
The result of this study shows the students felt confident with their Reading Self Efficacy. And
the correlation result showed that there was a positive significant correlation between students’
reading self efficacy and final grades.
Keywords: reading, self-efficacy, correlation analysis.