The Influence of Organization Participation and Learning Styles on Students' Academic Achievement

The study was conducted to determine the influence of the activeness in organization and learning style toward students' academic achievement particularly at the Faculty of Economics, State University of Padang. This study is a descriptive associative study. Students who are active in organization within period 2015/2016 in the Faculty of Economics were about 250 students. Slovin formula was used to determine the sample size and probability sampling was used for the technique of sampling. The samples or dataset are students who are active in organization at the Faculty of Economics as many as 154 students. Questionnaire and documentation were used to collect the data. The data were processed using descriptive and inferential analyses. The results of the study are as follows. First, the activeness in organization significantly influences the student academic achievement. Second, learning style influences significantly the student academic achievement. Finally, the students' organization participation and learning style influence significantly the student academic achievement.