Abstract:
Learning approaches describe as a study activity provoked by the student’s perception
of context, content and learning task that consist of three forms are deep, strategic and
surface learning approach. Learning approaches as a process factor influence academic
achievement as a product factor. An analytic cross sectional study was carried out to know
the correlation between learning approaches and academic achievement of second year
medical students in Faculty of Medicine, Riau University period 2011/2012. The data was
taken by using short version questionnaire of Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for
Students (ASSIST) which was translated into Bahasa. The results showed that 54.6%
respondences used strategic learning approach, 18.5% respondences used surface learning
approach, 14.3% respondences used deep learning approach and 12,7% used combination
two kind of learning approaches. Academic achievement showed weak positive correlation
with deep learning approach (r=0.321), strategic learning approach (r=0.228) and weak
negative correlation with surface learning approach (r= -0.205).
