The Influence of Teachers’ Competence Toward the Learning Outcome of Students from the Beauty Department in a Vocational High School in Semarang

Abstract

This research aims to unveil the correlation between teachers' pedagogical and professional skills towards the learning outcome of Beauty department program students in a Vocational High School in Semarang. The objectives include 1) the correlation between teachers' pedagogical skills to students' learning outcome; 2) the correlation between professional competence with students' learning outcome; 3) the influence between both teachers' competences to students' learning outcome. This research employed a survey. The researcher targeted the Hair Beauty department of a Vocational High School in Semarang. The population of this research is the XI grade students who take Hair Beauty major. This research employed a saturated sampling method for 36 students. The data were analysed with the correlation and double regression techniques.The result showed that 1) there is a correlation between teachers' pedagogical competence and students' learning outcome in the rate of 0.768; 2) there is a correlation between teachers' professional competence towards students' learning outcome in 0.652; and 3) there is a collective correlation between teachers' pedagogical ability and professionalism to students' learning outcome in 0.778.