Self-Regulated Learning and Tinto’s Model: An Empirical Study on University Students

This study uses the self-regulated learning and Tinto’s model to explain the relationship between academic performance and student satisfaction in a public university in Malaysia. A total of 299 Malaysian undergraduate students were chosen and personally given questionnaires. An important outcome of this study was the existence of a relationship between academic performance and student satisfaction. One interesting finding was that students with a lower cumulative grade point average (CGPA) tend to be more satisfied than those who obtained higher CGPA.