The Influence of Self-Study Time, Group Study Time and Library Study Time on Academic Achievement of Medical Students Applying Problem Based Learning Approach

Abstract

Study time is considered as one of the factors to predict for successfull  in the learning process for contributing  satisfactory academic achievement. The curriculum adopted in the Faculty of Medicine nowadays is implementing strategies for Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach that ensuring students can allocate sufficient time for study. This study aimed to analyze the influence of  library study time on academic achievement, to analyze the influence of group study time on academic achievement of medical students that using Problem Based Learning as learning strategy approach, to analyze the influence of  library study time on academic achievement, to analyze the influence of self-study time, group study time and library study time on academic achievement.

Methods: This research used a purposive sampling techniques and data collection involved 77 respondents from third-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine in the subject of Traumatology. The data that have been obtained then analyzed using the independent t test and linear regression.

Results and Discussion: There is a difference of self- study time on academic performance in third year medical students with mean differences of 0,533 and t value of 1,472            and p value: 0,145. There is a difference of group study time on academic performance in third year medical students with mean differences of 0. 6799 and t value of 2,322 and p value: 0,023. There is a difference of library study time on academic performance in third year medical students with mean differences of 0,0451 and t value of 0,262 and p value: 0,794. On overall, self-study time, group study time and library study time influence the academic performance with R: 0,351 and p value: 0,000.

Conclusions and Recommendations: Overall, self-study time, group study time and library study time influence on academic achievement of the third year medical students.