IMPLEMENTATION OF TEACHER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (A CASE STUDY AT MAHABODHI PRIMARY SCHOOL)

Human resources have an increasingly important position in the state of dynamic society, especially in the current society condition, which is oriented towards professional work. On the other hand, at this time Indonesia has entered the era of globalization, which requires competent and qualified human resources in their respective fields. One of the elements of creating human natural resources is the teacher, so it is deemed necessary to have competent and qualified teachers in an education setting. The success of an education organization is very much determined by the readiness of the teachers in preparing their students through teaching and learning activities. Thus, the purpose of this study was aimed to determine the implementation of teacher performance evaluations at SD Mahabodhi Jakarta. Qualitative research methods were used to describe the implementation of teacher performance evaluation programs. The results showed that the performance and quality of a teacher increases with the implementation of performance management according to the prescribed standards. The performance evaluation program refers to management principles which includes four components, namely (1) Planning performance evaluation, (2) Organizing performance evaluations, (3) Implementation of performance evaluation, (4) Supervision of teacher performance evaluation. Thus, it can be concluded that the teacher performance evaluation program can improve teacher performance and quality.

VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND THE SELF EFFICACY WITH ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

The aims of this study is to identify and analyze the relationship between school principal visionary leadership and teacher’s self-efficacy toward teacher’s organizational commitment. The study used a survey method. Population of 223 teachers, and a sample of 143 teachers. Data collected by questionnaire technique. Data analyzed with correlation and regression techniques. The results showed that: 1) there is a positive and significant relationship between the visionary leadership of the head teacher of the school with organizational commitment; 2) there is a positive and significant relationship between self-efficacy with organizational commitment of teachers; and 3) there is a positive and significant relationship between the visionary leadership of the principal and teacher self-efficacy simultaneously with organizational commitment of teachers. Its impliaction, the teacher organizational commitment can be enhanced through the visionary leadership of the principal and teacher self-efficacy.

IMPLEMENTATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) IN RAISING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN PRIVATE MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH

This research in purposes is to implement the Total Quality Management (TQM) to raise the Quality of education in private Madarasah Tsanawiyah (MTs. Muhammadiyah Bandung. The research method used is qualitative method. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. Data will use primer data, which taken directly from the respondent and secondary data which become supporting data. Based on the research result, the Implemetation of Total Quality Mangement of privat Madrasah Tsanawiyah is very good. By good steps and commitment effort and also focus in realizing the vision, mission, and purposes of the school applying school’s program strategicly and continuously.Explorating the potential of human and natural resources and developing relationship with harmony between schools and the stakeholders and also processing creativity and innovation program of the school. Every obstacle and innovation became the first step to motivate the school to optimize the potentials so we can act that every weak and obstacle is never exist.

MAXIMIZING TEACHER DISCIPLINARY BEHAVIOR THROUGH RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP, A CORRELATIONAL STUDY

This research is to study the correlation between responsible leadership of school principals and discipline of PKn (Civics) teachers at Al-Ashar Elementary School Pinang Sub-district, Tangerang City. Although there is a lot of study about the correlation between leadership and discipline, this study focuses on responsible leadership as opposed to “ordinary” leadership. The study used a correlation method where responsible leadership of school principals was used as an independent variable and discipline of PKn (Civics) teachers as the dependent variable. Thirty out of 35 teachers in the population were used as a random sample. Hypothesis testing was conducted using product moment. The study found that there is a positive correlation between the responsible leadership of school principal and Civics teachers at Al-Ashar Elementary School Pinang Sub-district, Tangerang City.

SPIKING SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT ON NATIONAL STANDARDS THROUGH TEACHER MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM AT MUHAMMADIYAH 5 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

This research was conducted to determine the success of the Teacher Management Information System in raising the achievement of the national standard at Muhammadiyah 5 Elementary School-5, Jakarta. It focuses on data collection systems of teachers through Google Drive (GDrive). The researcher used a Goal-Oriented Evaluation Model. The result showed that the program could help school increase the achievement of three out of eight national standards of education, namely the standard of facilities and infrastructure, the standard of management, and the standard of educator and non-educator. The research recommends the program to be continued with improvement. To get maximum results, the principal has to conduct a structured training program followed by establishing a good teacher filing system.

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATION

The study aims to describe the community participation in education. Research using qualitative methods, with a phenomenological approach. Subjects of research include: chairman of the foundation, headmaster, head of the panel madrasah, teachers, parents, donors, community leaders, religious leaders, education observers / NGOs, and education experts. The results showed: (1) Public participation in education form of financial and non financial; (2) Patterns of community participation in education there is a direct and representative; (3) Factors that affect the community participation in the provision of education for the culture of boading schools are different from boarding schools in general, the alumni are scattered in various professions, managerial capabilities foundation’s president modernize madrassas, status and position of a person, a strategic location, communication, economy, gender, age, old habitation, and the opportunity to participate; and (4) Impact of community participation in education is positive and negative.

MANAGERIAL COMPETENCIES OF PRINCIPALS AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION ISO 9001:2000 IN IMPROVING THE TEACHER WORK DISCIPLINE

The study aims to identify, analyze, and test the effect of managerial skills of school principals to teachers’ work discipline, the effect of the implementation of ISO 9001: 2008 to the teacher work disicipline, and the influence of the principal managerial ability to imlementasi policy quality ISO 9001: 2008. The study used survey methods, with path analysis techniques. Population of 156 teachers, sample 112 teachers. Data were collected through questionnaires, scale Likert. The results showed that: 1) There is a direct positive effect managerial skills of school principals to discipline teachers’ work, with the coefficient correlation 0,897, determination of the coefficient of 0,805; 2) There is a direct positive effect of ISO 9001: 2008 to the discipline teacher work, with the coefficient correlation 0,307, determination of the coefficient of 0,095; 3) There is a direct positive effect managerial skills of school principals to ISO 9001: 2008, with the coefficient correlation 0,340, determination of the coefficient of 0,116. In conclusion, the influence of managerial ability of the principal and the implementation of ISO 9001:2008 against disciplined teachers work has a fairly high level of significance.

THE EFFECT OF QUALITY SERVICES AND FACILITIES ON STUDENT SATISFACTION

In principle, prioritizing stakeholders’ satisfaction is the philosophy of all educational institutions including Sekolah Tinggi Farmasi Muhammadiyah located in Tangerang Banten. Quality services in high education are services that can meet the needs of students and their expectations. Thus, this study aims to determine the effect of service quality (reliability, responsiveness, empathy, guarantee, direct evidence (physical evidence) on the satisfaction of students who use services and facilities. In addition, this study also aims to determine the most influential dimensions of service quality in providing satisfaction to students. The samples were 24 people from all population of 460 students, where the research data was collected through questionnaires. Validity instruments were tested using the construct validity test and reliability instruments were tested using the Cronbach Alpha. SPSS Statistics 24.00 was employed to analyze frequency statistics. Hypothesis results that have been tested on the frequency table are 95% internal evidence evidence (a-5%). The results of the study show that the dimensions of reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and tangible have a positive effect on student satisfaction.

ESTABLISHING INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE TO IMPROVE WORK MOTIVATION

The research aims to obtain information about and to analyze the influence of: (1) interpersonal communication on work motivation, (2) organizational climate on work motivation, and (3) interpersonal communication on organizational climate. The study used a causal survey method, with path analysis technique. Population of 253 teachers sampled to 72 teachers. Data were gathered by using five-scaled questionnaires. The result of the research shows: 1) there is a direct influence of interpersonal communication on the motivation indicated by path coeficient of 0.468; 2) there is a direct influence of organizational climate on motivation indicated by path coeficent 0.447; 3) there is a direct influence of interpersonal communication on organizational climate indicated by path coefient of 0.735. The implication, improved interpersonal communication and organizational climate increase work motivation.

THE INVESTIGATION OF SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP, AND WORK MOTIVATION ON KINDERGARDEN TEACHER PERFORMANCE

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the principal's situational leadership on teacher performance; the influence of work motivation on teacher performance; and the influence of the principal's situational leadership on work motivation. The research employed a causal survey research and path analysis technique. The sample of 103 kindergarten teachers of Tanggerang regency was taken by using proportional random sampling. The results have shown that 1) Path coefficient value of the principal’s situational leadership and the teacher performance is 0.440 with the probability significance value ρx3x1 = 0.000. It means that the principal’s situational leadership has a significant effect on teacher performance. 2) Path coefficient value of work motivation and the teacher Performance is 0.166 with the probability significance value ρx3x1 = 0.005. It indicates that work motivation has a significant effect on teacher performance. 3) Path coefficient value of situational leadership and teacher work motivation is 0,598 with probability significance value ρx3x1 = 0.000. It implies that the principal’s situational leadership has a significant effect on work motivation. Based on the research findings, it can be inferred that leadership style has a major role to develop work motivation and performance that have a positive impact on the quality of individuals in an organization