Abstract:
As professionals, teachers have an important role to play in primary, secondary, and early
childhood education. Teacher certification as an effort to boost teacher’s qualification is also
expected to improve learning quality and quality education continuously. This study aims at
investigating the impact of teacher certification on teachers’ working performance. The Rapid
Rural Appraisal (RRA) was used to obtain accurate information related to pedagogic,
personal, social, and professional competences. The competences of both certified and
uncertified teachers were measured against 78 indicators, and the impact of the
implementation of the government’s policy on teachers’ teaching performance was measured
using t-test. Results showed that overall there is a difference between certified and uncertified
teachers. However, in terms of both junior and senior high school teachers’ pedagogic and
professional competences, no difference was found. Statistical tests showed that there is no
difference in working performance between certified and uncertified teachers
