Predictive Power of Intellectual Ability Test Score on Students' Fine Art Learning Outcomes

摘要

This study aims to determine the magnitude of the predictive power of intellectual ability test scores on Fine Art students' learning achievements. Intellectual ability test is part of a psychological test conducted by State Islamic Senior High School MAN 2 Padangsidimpuan as one of the selection instruments when students enroll at the school. The feedback on the intellectual ability consists of general intelligence, comprehension, spatial, and synthesis analysis, while the Fine Art students' learning achievements comprise: (1) students' theory-based learning achievements, (2) practice-based learning achievements, and (3) theory and practice-based learning achievements. This study was expo facto research. The population was all students of State Islamic Senior High School MAN 2 Padangsidimpuan class XI and the researchers employed a simple random sampling technique. The data were obtained from the results of psychological tests conducted by the Psychology Bureau Marsha Puntadewa and Fine Art students' learning achievements. The techniques used to analyze the data were a descriptive analysis, correlation, and simple linear regression. The results of the data analysis shows that the amount of the predictive power of: (1) the intellectual ability test scores on students' theory-based learning achievements is 83%, (2) the intellectual ability test scores on students' practice-based learning achievements is 75.5%, and (3) the intellectual ability test scores on students' practice and theory-based learning achievements is 85.4%.