Educational Cost Effectiveness through the Contribution of Teacher’s Competency and Learning Media Costs Perspective

The focus of this study on the effectiveness of education costs is specifically limited to the contribution of education costs to the quality of learning outcomes through improving teacher competencies and providing learning media. The problem is limited to the financing of teacher competencies and Mathematics learning media in high schools in the city of Bandung in the academic year 2011 - 2014. The method used is quantitative analytical descriptive with data collection techniques using, interviews, observations and questionnaires based on ratio / numerical scale. The population of this study were all senior high school principals in the city of Bandung. Sampling by using purposive sampling, the number of research samples determined as respondents as many as 27 schools. Data analysis techniques using simple linear regression and multiple linear regression. Data processing using the SPSS program.21. The results of the study show: (1) the contribution of financing to increase the competence of mathematics teachers towards the quality of learning outcomes is 0.275 in the medium category. (2) the contribution of financing for learning media to the quality of learning outcomes is 0.562 with a weak category. (3) Simultaneously the contribution of teacher competency financing and the cost of learning media is 0.576 with the medium category.