The Correlation between School Accreditation and Students’ English Achievement of Public Senior High Schools

Abstract

The objectives of the study were (1) to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation between accreditation and students’ English achievement of public senior high schools in Palembang, and (2) to find out whether or not there was a contribution of accreditation on students’ English achievement. The population of 18 accredited public senior high schools in Palembang in 2016 with 3556 students of 12th grade were selected to be the sample of the study by using the purposive sampling technique. The data of the accreditation list and students’ English national examination scores were taken from BAP S/M (The Education Accreditation Board) and Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia. To analyze the data, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient to find out whether or not there was a correlation between the two variables. The result showed that (1) there was no significant correlation between school accreditation and students’ English achievement (r-obtained 0.406 and p-value 0.095), and (2) there was 16.4% contribution of school accreditation on student’s English achievement.