Relationship between Parent Socio-Economic Status with Student Learning Interest and Student Learning Achievement

Abstract

This research was aime (1) to find out the relationship between the socioeconomic status of parents with students' learning interests (2) Knowing the relationship between parents' socioeconomic status and student achievement (3) Knowing the relationship between students' interest in learning and student learning. The population of this study was 90 students of Muhammadiyah 1 Mertoyuan Vocational School and a sample of 30 students taken randomly. Quantitative method quantitative research method is chosen because it is one type of research whose specifications are systematic, planned, and clearly structured from the beginning to the making of its research design. Another definition of quantitative research is that research requires a lot of use of numbers, ranging from data collection, interpretation of the data, and the appearance of the results. According to Sugiyono, quantitative research methods can be interpreted as research methods based on the philosophy of positivism, used to examine certain populations or samples. The sampling technique is generally done randomly; data collection using research instruments, data analysis is quantitative / statistical in order to test the hypotheses that have been set (Sugiyono, 2012: 7). From the results of the study it can be concluded that the relationship of socio-economic status with learning achievement contributed 6.04%, the relationship of interest in learning with learning achievement contributed 82.33% while the other variables contributed 11.62%.

Keywords: parent socio-economic, student learning interest, student learning achievement