The Correlation between the Students’ SPM English Achievement and Overall Academic Performance in Politeknik Kota Bharu

Abstract

This study aims to identify the relationship between students’ achievement in SPM English and the performance in engineering courses among the Department of Electrical Engineering students for semesters 1 and 2. The objective of the study is to obtain certainty and validity that there are effects on the relationship between the achievement of Electrical Engineering subjects and the SPM English subject. This study is an exploratory study using secondary data based on the results of students’ semester examinations (continuous assessment and final examination for students of semester 1 and 2) for a period of five semesters (June 2017 - June 2019). The study sample of 955 students consisting of Diploma program students in the Department of Electrical Engineering was taken for the purpose of this study. Four hypotheses were constructed for this study. Statistical ANOVA method was used to analyze these hypotheses. The test results prove that there is a significant relationship between the achievement of the Discipline Core and the Common Core Courses semester 1 and semester 2 of Electrical Engineering students with the SPM English achievement.