ERIC Number: EJ1115867
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-2222-1735
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Does Teacher Quality Affect Student Achievement? An Empirical Study in Indonesia
Sirait, Swando
Journal of Education and Practice, v7 n27 p34-41 2016
The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between teacher qualities in relation to student achievement in Indonesia. Teacher quality in this study defines as teacher evaluation score, in the areas of professional and pedagogic competency. The result of this study consonant to previous study that teacher quality, in term of teacher evaluation score, is a matter and statistically significantly to student performance, in senior high school level. Instead of teacher quality variable, the study also examine others control variable such as, government and family expenditure, poverty gap, unemployment gap, electricity access, morbidity rate per district. Others variables show varying result in relations to student achievement. Electricity access variable is significant relation to student achievement; while teacher experience, family spending, government spending and morbidity rate variables are partly significant to student achievements.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Teacher Evaluation, Scores, Statistical Significance, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Expenditures, Poverty, Unemployment, Energy, Mortality Rate, Teaching Experience, Parent Financial Contribution, Regression (Statistics), National Competency Tests, Secondary School Students, High Schools, Junior High Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indonesia
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