Does Teacher Quality Affect Student Achievement? An Empirical Study in Indonesia

Abstract

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.

Keywords: teacher quality, teacher evaluation score, education production function and student achievement