The Relationship between Responsibility and Academic Achievement among Secondary School Students in International Pioneers Academy Schools in Jordan

Abstract

The study aimed to measure the relationship between responsibility in choice theory and academic achievement among secondary school students in Al-Rowad International Schools in Jordan. To achieve the goal of the study, the researchers used the descriptive, correlational approach and used the measure of responsibility and the measure of academic achievement. The study sample consisted of (50) male and female students. The sample was selected from secondary school classes randomly. The results of the study revealed that there is a direct relationship between responsibility and perceived academic achievement among high school students in Al-Rowad schools in Jordan, where the value of the correlation coefficient reached (0.808), which is a statistically significant value at the significance level (0.05). The study came out with several recommendations, the most prominent of which are: developing Activating guidance programs based on choice theory to improve responsible behavior to raise the level of achievement.