PERANAN SELF EFFICACY DALAM MENINGKATKAN PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA

Abstract

Self Efficacy plays a very important role in learning activities, a person will be able to use his potential optimally if his self efficacy supports it. Self Efficacy greatly influences the success of a student, because students who have Self Efficacy have the belief that "I can" this is accompanied by high enthusiasm in doing each of their learning tasks so that in each activity they do succeed, on the contrary for students who do not have Self Efficacy or have low Self Efficacy, these students have the belief that "I can't" this is characterized by avoiding doing many tasks, so that every activity carried out by these students will fail. Students with high self-efficacy will always display more behavior. active in learning compared to students who have lower self efficacy so that this can affect student achievement in school. This Self Efficacy needs to be developed or fostered by every student, because this will affect students in their readiness to receive lessons, both lessons that students understand or also lessons that are difficult for students to understand, so that these students will not be easily discouraged when they encounter obstacles in the process study. With the existence of high self efficacy, students can achieve educational goals to the maximum, so that learning achievement will increase. Thus students are expected to no longer have negative perceptions about their ability to learn.