THE EFFECT OF LEARNING STRATEGY AND TYPE OF PERSONALITY ON STUDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE

In this paper, we scrutinized the effect of learning strategy, particularly Discovery and Expository learning strategy, and the combination of those with the personality type of the students in improving the student’s achievement, particularly in economic science. A sample of 74 students from the eleventh grade of Al-Ansor Islamic Boarding School were used to determine the result. The sample was then broken up into two groups of different learning strategy and two groups of different personality type. Participant’s achievement was evaluated using a previously validated instrument along with the validated personality type to determine their respective group. Examination of these data, points to statistically significant difference between different learning strategy and different personality type. Thus, the research findings suggest that better learning strategy will improve students’ achievement and different personality type will contribute to different achievement on students.