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PERCEPTION
Masruroh
Universitas Islam Lamongan, ismi_masruroh@yahoo.com
Abstract
The Evaluation of learning process is necessary to improve the quality of learning held in
an education unit. One of the learning process’ component that needs attention is
teacher’s effectiveness. Student is considered as the one that appropriate to give an
evaluation about teacher. The result of this student evaluation toward teacher later can
be used by teacher as a reference for better learning process. Through this student
evaluation, students would feel the experience to get involved in the improvement of
learning process and their aspiration being accommodated as this article is aimed to
describe students’ perception toward good teacher characteristics. This research is
descriptive research using survey method with 107 first semester students of Engineering
Faculty in 2016 at Islamic University of Lamongan as respondent. The instrument used in
this research was open questionnaire which students were asked to write down three
characters of good teacher based on their perception. The obtained data was calculated
into percentage to acquire three characters of good teacher with highest percentage. The
results showed that three characteristics of good teacher with the highest percentage are
friendly (16.51%), patient (14.64%), and communicative (11.84%).
Keywords
Good teacher, characteristics, students, perception
Introduction
The Evaluation of learning process is necessary to improve the quality of learning
held in an education unit. One of the learning process’ component that needs
attention is teacher’s effectiveness. Teacher is considered as the most important
element in the achievement of educational objectives (Mehrabian, et.al., 2014).
Teacher has very important role in learning process because he has a role as the
implementer of learning process in a class. Teacher is also considered as the one
who has frequent interaction with students. Thus, the evaluation of teacher’s
effectiveness is expected to motivate teacher in order to be a competent teacher.
This competent teacher later is expected to give positive effect on the process of
learning in order to improve education quality.
Teacher and Lecturer. The competencies are pedagogy, personality, social, and
professional. Pedagogy competency is ability to understand students, make a
lesson plan and implement the lesson, carry out learning evaluation, and
motivate students to actualize their potency. Personal competency is considered
as an ability to reflect steady, stable, mature, and wise personality. It also
considered as an authority, an ability to be a good role model for students, and
having good character. Social competency is ability to communicate and interact
effectively with students, school staffs, student’s parents, and general society.
Professional competency is considered as an ability to understand learning
content widely and deeply. Content understanding includes the understanding of
school’s curricula and content knowledge, and also understanding of structure
and methodology of knowledge.
The result of this student evaluation toward teacher later can be used by teacher
as a reference for better learning process. Through this student evaluation,
students would feel the experience to get involved in the improvement of
Proceedings 1thInternational Conference on Islamic Civilization and Society– 2017
learning process and their aspiration being accommodated as this article is aimed
to describe students’ perception toward good teacher characteristics.
METHOD
This research is descriptive research using survey method. Data was obtained
from 107 first semester students of Engineering Faculty in 2016 at Islamic
University of Lamongan. The instrument used in this research was open
questionnaire which students were asked to write down three characters of good
teacher based on their perception. This questionnaire is used to accommodate
the students’ perception toward good teacher. The obtained data was calculated
into percentage to acquire three characters of good teacher with highest
percentage.
Based on figure 1, it can be seen that the three characteristics of good teacher
with the highest percentage are friendly (16.51%), patient (14.64%), and
communicative (11.84%). It shows that most of the students have perception
that a good teacher must has friendly, patient, and communicative character.
Conclusion
Based on the data obtained from 107 students and the discussion above it can be
concluded that the three characteristics of good teacher with the highest
percentage are friendly (16.51%), patient (14.64%), and communicative
(11.84%).
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