KOMPARASI KOMPETENSI PEDAGOGIK DAN KOMPETENSI PROFESIONAL PENDIDIK SEKOLAH DASAR BERDASARKAN KEPEMILIKAN SERTIFIKAT PENDIDIK DI PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR

eachers certification program is one of the efforts by the government to improve the quality of teachers in Indonesia. The qualified teachers have become the important element of the successful learning activities. The success can be achieved when the certification process fulfills the quality standard so that the output will be the reflection of teachers’ quality. The research aims are to find out the quality achievement of teachers certification program on the pedagogic competence and professional competence of primary schools compared to non certificate teachers, and also among certified teachers according to the year of graduation as indicators of continuous improvement in this program. The respondents are the teachers on primary schools (SD/MI) from 9 residents in East Java which are selected randomly. The technique and instrument of the data collecting use the test, then analyzed by using ANOVA, Tukey Post Hoc Test for the follow up after Anova, and regression. The result shows that: 1) There are significant differences of pedagogic competence and professional competence between certified teachers (graduation of 2006, 2007, and 2008) and uncertified teachers. The difference is influenced by the age, position, working hours, and the ownership of educator certificate. 2) Pedagogic competence and professional competence of the certified teachers based on the graduation year (2006, 2007, 2008) are on the average. The competence grade of the three graduation years are still under 60 percent. The research recommends that the teachers should participate more in professional improvement activities, the headmasters assist the teachers’ acceleration through the supervision function, resource facilitation, and educational financial resource. The educational department in regional stage incorporates with the Institution of Educational Quality Assurance (LPMP) of East Java province perform their duty and function in mapping, supervising, facilitating and organizing the regulations of competences improvement of primary school teachers. Finally, in order to get new innovations to enrich the study of teachers certification program in Indonesia, there should be a further study