The relationship between self-regulated learning and academic achievement of undergraduate medical students

Academic achievement is one indicator success in student learning. Good academic achievement is supported by the ability of self-regulated learning included the medical students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-regulated learning and academic achievement undergraduated medical students of Universitas Warmadewa. This study is a cross-sectional non-experimental descriptive analytic research. All undergraduate medical student (n = 219) invite to participate. This study used Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) to measured self-regulated learning and grade point average (GPA) to measured academic achievement of undergraduate medical students. The result of MSLQ is correlated with GPA of medical students. Pearson correlation was conducted to determine the relationship between MSLQ and GPA. One hundred and ninety students complete the questionnaire (86.76% response rate). There was weak positive association between self-regulated learning and academic achievement (r = 0.256, p > 0.05). This study shows that a students who has good self-regulated learning has good academic achievement.