Pengaruh Teacher Support Terhadap Academic Engagement Pada Siswa SMP

Academic engagement is the involvement of the student in participating in learning activities and their attention in the academic field. Achieving good and quality learning outcomes cannot be separated from various influencing factors, inside or outside the classroom. One of the factors that can support increasing student academic engagement is teacher support. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of teacher support on student academic engagement. This research is non-experimental quantitative research with a random sampling technique, and the research sample amounted to 240 people with the criteria of junior high school students, male or female and aged 12-15 years. The scales used were the Teacher Support Scale (TSS) and the Student Engagement Scale (SES). The result showed that the effective contribution of teacher support to the academic engagement of junior high school students was 16,8% and students who have cognitive engagement of 55%, emotional engagement of 53%, and behavioral engagement of 40%.