The Relationship of Teachers' Professional Competence toward Students' Learning Motivation at SMAN 1 North Siberut Mentawai Islands

摘要

This research was motivated by the low level of professional competence of teachers to ward students' motivation in the learning process at State Senior High School 1 (SMAN 1) North Siberut Mentawai Islands. The purpose of this study was to determine and describe the relationship of professional competence of teachers to students' motivation in SMAN 1 North Siberut Mentawai Islands. The hypothesis of this study is that there is a strong positive relationship between the professional competence of teachers on students' motivation in SMAN 1 North Siberut Mentawai Islands. This research is Descriptive Correlational the entire population of students of SMAN 1 North Siberut Mentawai Islands as much as 423 students. Sampling was done by way of random sampling technique in which the individual is drawn at random from class X to class XII. Samples were taken by 80 students using Slovin formula. The independent variable in this paper is the professional competence of teachers (X) and the dependent variable is the student's motivation (Y). Data professional competence of teachers and students' motivation derived from the questionnaire. Processing of the data in this research using SPSS 17.0 for Windows, with statistical analysis models correlation with a correlation coefficient (r) =0.836, and a significant value of 0.000. At the stage of data processing by using an error rate of 0.05. This result indicates that the r-sig 0.000≤0.05 alpha. To test the quality of a measuring tool used Corrected Item-Total Correlation to test its validity and to test the reliability of the Alpha Cronbarch item questionnaire with an average score of 2.86 for a total percentage score of 71.47% for Professional Competence of Teachers and the average score of 2, 83 with a total percentage score of 70.08% for student motivation. The results showed a positive relationship strong and significant correlation between the variables X with Y of 69.8% and 30.2% influenced by other variables not studied in this research.