Measurement of Teacher Performance in Pematangsiantar City Middle School Through Teacher Certification, Motivation, and Job Satisfaction

One of the indicators for the success of quality education in schools is to pay attention to and improve a teacher's performance. The urgency of a teacher's performance has implications for the effectiveness of the learning process in schools. The essence of this research is to determine the role of teacher certification, motivation, and job satisfaction in influencing teacher performance. This study uses a literature and field research design with a quantitative causality approach. Collect data in the field using observation methods and distributing questionnaires online from July to September 2020. The questionnaire was measured by several questions related to teacher certification, motivation, job satisfaction, and teacher performance. This study used a sample of 215 respondents to determine the sample size using the purposive sampling method. A partial least square is applied to examine the relationship between teacher performance, teacher certification, motivation, and job satisfaction. The results of this study indicate that of the three hypotheses developed, there is one hypothesis that is rejected, namely for the effect of the motivation variable on the teacher performance variable, the results do not have a significant effect. As for the variable teacher certification and job satisfaction, the results significantly influenced teacher performance. The results of this study indicate that of the three hypotheses developed, there is one hypothesis that is rejected, namely for the effect of the motivation variable on the teacher performance variable, the results do not have a significant effect. As for the variable teacher certification and job satisfaction, the results significantly influenced teacher performance. The results of this study indicate that of the three hypotheses developed there is one hypothesis that is rejected, namely for the effect of the motivation variable on the teacher performance variable, the results do not have a significant effect. As for the variable teacher certification and job satisfaction, the results significantly influenced teacher performance.