The Correlation Between Students’ Reading Habit and Their Academic Achievement at The Eighth Students of Junior High School 14 Cilegon

An individual's reading habit may be defined as a reading behavior that is performed slowly and regularly with the intention of acquiring information, knowledge, and even experience. The objective of this study was to determine whether or not there is a connection between the reading habits of eighth-grade students at SMPN 14 Cilegon and the academic accomplishment of those kids. Within the scope of this study, a quantitative methodology was used with a correlational design approach. All of the participants in this research were eighth-grade students, and there were a total of 150 kids involved.There were thirty students included in the sample, and the kind of sampling that was used was known as simple random sampling. In the course of this investigation, a questionnaire and testing (with multiple choice questions) were used as tools. According to the findings of the statistical analysis that was carried out using the product moment correlation formula, the value of rcount is equivalent to 0.716, and the value of r table at a level of significance of 0.05 corresponds to 0.361. It may be deduced from this that the reading habits of students are one of the factors that define the level of academic accomplishment they acquire.