THE ACADEMIC QUALITY ASSURANCE: EVALUATION OF LECTURER PERFOMANCE IN TEACHING LEARNING ACTIVITY IN GRADUATE SCHOOL, UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA

Abstract:

The aims of the research is to identify the implementation of academic quality assurance on the evaluation of lecturer performance in teaching learning activity and to study the effectiveness of the lecturer performance components as an indicator of the teaching learning quality in Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The research was conducted in five study programs of Graduate School, namely Religion and Cross Culture, Media and Cultural Studies, National Resilience, Extension and Development Communication Studies Program, also Environmental Studies Program. The variables were selected based on the quality assurance standard, issued by Board of Higher Education, not only to evaluate the lecturer performance but also to evaluate the study program performance. The variable consists of three elements, namely the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005 (competence of pedagogic, professional, personality, and social), BAN-PT accreditation standard (Standard 4: Human resources and standard 7: research and community service), and the citation index based on Scopus and Google scholar. This research employed the descriptive analytic method with qualitative and quantitative approach as well as interview to obtain real data. The result showed that the performance of lecturers under the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005 and BAN-PT accreditation standard achieved good results, while the performance for the citation index lecturer needed to be improved. Component of input variable namely BAN-PT accreditation standard and citation index may reflect the effectiveness of the quality of teaching learning in the variable ouput, in particular for pedagogical and professional competence based on the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005. It was proved that 100 students as respondent from five study programs gave high results namely 92.91 for pedagogic competence and 91.3 for professional competence.

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