Lecturer Certification and The Teaching-Learning Process Quality in Universitas Sumatera Utara

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10.2991/icosop-17.2018.89How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Certification, Lecturer, Quality of teaching-learning process

Abstract

This research entitled "Lecturer Certification and Quality of Teaching and Learning Process in Universitas Sumatera Utara" is aimed to know the quality of teaching and learning process conducted by certified lecturer at Universitas Sumatera Utara. This research is needed because the Indonesian government is determined to improve the quality of education from basic education to higher education. One important component in determining the quality of higher education is lecturers, because lecturers have an important role in teaching and learning process. Teaching in college is a professional job, therefore it takes a qualified lecturer, that is a lecturer who has the ability in the field of knowledge and teaching skills. Universitas Sumatera Utara was chosen as the location of this research based on the fact that the Universitas Sumatera Utara is one of the oldest and largest universities outside Java, where the position of Universitas Sumatera Utara at the national level among the best state universities in Indonesia, began rivaled by universities other countries outside Java. While in this era of globalization, higher education is required to produce qualified and competitive human resources to play a global role. Therefore, as a respected higher education institution, Universitas Sumatera Utara is considered responsible for providing high quality education and in accordance with market demands. To get an objective and measurable picture of the quality of the teaching-learning process, we used a quantitative research method with 220 people as our sample. Samples are then distributed evenly across four non-exact science faculty namely; Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Business, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, and Faculty of Law. There are nine indicators in analyzing the teaching and learning process: 1) Accountability; 2) Efficiency; 3) Creativity; 4) Effectiveness in task assignment and group discussion; 5) Consistency;6) Productivity; 7) Clarity and adequacy of information; 8) Compliance with needs and responsiveness; 9) Level of satisfaction. The results show that; In general, the implementation of teaching and learning process by certified lecturers in Universitas Sumatera Utara is very good. However, Universitas Sumatera Utara as an educational institution needs to make improvements, to complement, provide facilities and infrastructure in the learning process. Meanwhile, on the management of human resources, especially certified lecturers should be improved to improve the quality of teaching and professionalism. If this measure is taken, the Universitas Sumatera Utara tends to meet the expected quality and will be able to compete with other higher education institutions in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

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AU  - Fatma Wardy Lubis
AU  - Hendra Harahap
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TI  - Lecturer Certification and The Teaching-Learning Process Quality in Universitas Sumatera Utara
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SN  - 2352-5398
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