The Relationship Between Student Interest in Become Educators and Learning Achievement in Teacher Profession Course

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between students` interest in becoming educators and academic achievement in teaching profession courses. Data analysis techniques using descriptive analysis and partial correlation analysis. The population and sample consisted of all 150 students of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering, Makassar State University. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the R value of 0.965 is greater than the r table of 0.239 with a significance level of 0.12 <0.05 with a coefficient value of 0.303 which means that there is a significant relationship between the variable Student Interest in Becoming Educators (X) on Learning Achievement Teaching Profession Course (Y), the correlation coefficient is 30.3%, so it has a low degree of positive relationship, meaning that the more interested students become teaching staff, the better the learning achievement of teaching profession courses.