THE EFFECTS IN LACK OF CONFIDENCE TO THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF SELECTED GRADE 12

STUDENTS OF ASSIST

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Self confidence is a feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities and judgement but at the same time
lack of confidence can have a negative impact on academic achievements, leading to a lack of
confidence. A recent study (AIJSSR, 2020) shows that the most current crisis in the educational system is
due to low self-confidence that leaded a number of students having lack of enough participation and
unsatisfactory progress after much time spends in the class.

As Norman & Hyland (2003) stated that confidence is a factor in learning which can have its effects
on students participation and progress. Self- confidence is a very necessary for a student to take risks
and engage in learning activities and those who have self-confidence they are assured of their abilities
and are setting goals for themselves and work hard to achieve their goals without worrying about the
outcomes (kanza,2016).

According to Benabou &Tirole (2002),self-confidence is very effective in motivating humans and

can lead to changing human’s behavior. The self-confidence should be considered as the quality of a
student in which the student feels him/herself assured of successfully performing of different activities
in the class and out of the class for the purpose of learning. However, the impact of self-confidence in
learning process the researcher means that how students’ learning varies when students experience
either high self-confidence or low self-confidence.

Nevertheless, it is very challenging to increase other peoples confidence because you have to
understand how they feel or what are their experiences. Although the impact of low self-confidence had
been studied in detail, insufficient attention has been paid to students experiences. The student may
have experienced bullying, being compared to other people by their parents and fearful of criticism
causing of their lack of confidence.

The purpose of this study was to aid those experiencing trouble adjusting to society. Without
confidence, it will be difficult for us to fit into our society. In particular, when a particular program uses
this study to investigate ways to increase students' self-confidence,