COMPARING MODELS OF ACCREDITATION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP USING GENERALIZED STRUCTURAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Abstract

The National Education Standards Board in Indonesia is an independent and professional institution which maintain and control the quality of education. The National Examination is one of indicator which can be used as a basis for evaluating quality of education. National Accreditation Board for Schools conducts assessment to the schools on fulfillment of the established standards through accreditation process. There are several theoretical models of relationship between 8 national education standards for describing causality each other. The objective of this study are (1) to compare and determine the best model of the relationship between eight standards using generalized structured component analysis; and (2) to evaluate validity of indicators of accreditation instrument. It has been concluded that the model published by the Ministry of Education and Culture (2017) was the best model. AVE and Cronbach’s alpha showed that score on Mathematics, Science, English and Indonesian Language are important indicators for academic performance.  Critical ratio and variance inflation factor showed that there are 13 of 124 indicators of accreditation instrument are not valid. Analysis of structural model showed that school management has a big influence on standard of teachers and education staff. In addition, curriculum, standard of competency, standard of assessment and standard of process have direct influences to academic achievement.