The lecturers' teaching methods and competencies vary at IAIN Bukittinggi so that it
is important to know the correlation of the lecturers’ teaching methods and
competencies to the students’ learning achievement at IAIN Bukittinggi. The method
used of this research was quantitative method with ex post facto design. This research
involved all lecturers and students of IAIN Bukittinggi as population and the sample
was consisted of 40 people. The instrument used to collect the data was closed�questionnaire. The data were processed by scoring and inferential analyzing. The
finding indicated that most of the lecturers at IAIN Bukittinggi applied lecture,
question-answer, discussion, assignment, and problem solving methods. It was also
found that the correlation of the lecturers’ teaching methods and competencies to the
students’ achievement was only 2.8%. Therefore, there was low correlation of the
lecturers’ teaching methods and competencies to the students’ achievement in IAIN
Bukittinggi.