The Impact of Teacher Social Competence for the Result of Social Subject Grade VIII in SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar

ABSTRACT


INTRODUCTION
In the current development of the world of education, it is also showing very rapid development.Therefore, this Junior High School (SMP) is the foundation for instilling the spirit of the nation's children to receive education so that they become nobler people in living an increasingly advanced and developing life.Education is a process that aims to change a person's attitudes and behavior to gain human maturity through teaching and training.Education is also an important demand in the development life of children, where the aim is to guide and direct their potential so that in the future they can achieve the highest safety and happiness as individuals and members of society.
The goals of education can be achieved if someone guides and directs the child's potential.One profession that can create these goals is a teacher.Teaching is a noble profession, ideally Indonesian teachers always appear professionally with their main task being to educate, guide, train and develop curriculum or curriculum tools, as the principle "ing ngarso sung tulodho, ing madya mangun karso , tut wuri handayani " states.This means that a teacher at the front provides a role model or example, in the middle provides initiative and at the back provides encouragement or motivation.
Competence is the teacher's ability to adapt to work demands in the surrounding environment when carrying out his duties as a teacher and as an educator he must have social competence.Because, in relation to educators or learning resources, teachers always maintain good communication with students, parents, neighbors and friends in the profession.Teachers' social competence is related to children's learning outcomes.Because how can children absorb lesson material well if the teacher lacks the ability to communicate with students and their parents.
It can be seen from the student learning results obtained by class VIII students when taking the social studies subject exam that it is still low or that there are still many students who get scores below the Minimum Completeness Criteria (KKM), where the KKM set by the school for the social science subject is 72.
Meanwhile, the social studies teacher hopes that 95% of students will succeed in achieving a score above the KKM in the Mid-Semester Assessment (PTS) exam in the social sciences subject, but in reality, seen from the Mid-Semester Assessment table, many students fail the social studies subject exam, where students who pass In the social studies exam there were only 82 students or 37% and 141 students or 63% did not complete it .From the results of the Mid-Semester Assessment (PTS) for class VIII students, it shows that learning outcomes are still low.According to one of the teachers interviewed by the researcher, students are still less active and do not dare to ask the teacher if they do not understand the material/lessons conveyed by the teacher, are silent when answering questions from the teacher, and are not motivated to present and explain a problem by giving discussion of the problems presented.
In the above phenomenon, researchers are interested in examining in more depth the social competence of teachers through research with the title."The Influence Of Teachers' Social Competence On Student Learning Outcomes In The Social Science Subject Of Class Viii Students At Smp Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar"

Teacher Social Competence
Social competence, stated by Buchari Alma in the journal Anggun Rahmawati and Indah Nartani (2018:1), is the teacher's ability to communicate and interact effectively with the school environment and outside the school environment .Mulyasa in the journal Hazami and Anik Herminingsih (2017:7) argue that social competence is the ability of teachers as part of society to communicate and interact effectively with other people including: students, teachers, parents/guardians of students and the community.Teacher social competence is the ability and skill of a teacher to communicate and interact effectively in the implementation of the learning process and the community so that it has a positive impact on student learning outcomes for report cards.
2. Learning outcomes Learning outcomes are defined as the level of success of students in studying subjects at school which is expressed in scores obtained from test results regarding a number of certain subject matters.Sudjana in Dani Firmansyah's journal (2015:4), learning outcomes are the abilities that students have after experiencing the learning process.According to Oemar Hamalik (2008: 155), learning outcomes are changes in behavior in a person that can be observed and measured in the form of knowledge, attitudes and skills.This change can be interpreted as an improvement and better development before those who did not know became those who knew.Learning outcomes have an important meaning in the teaching and learning process at school, which is a benchmark for success in the teaching and learning process.A person's mastery of learning outcomes can be seen from his behavior, namely behavior in the form of mastery of knowledge and thinking skills.

METHODS
The type of research carried out is descriptive quantitative research.This research is descriptive research because it aims to describe the facts and characteristics of a particular population or area in a systematic, factual and thorough manner.According to Sugiyono (2017:11) that "Quantitative Research can be interpreted as a research method that is based on the philosophy of positivism, used to research certain populations or samples, collecting data using research instruments, quantitative/statistical data analysis, with the aim of testing the hypothesis has been implemented.
Based on the researcher's title " Influence Teachers' Social Competence on Student Learning Outcomes in Social Sciences (Social Sciences) Class VIII Subjects at SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar ".So the research location and time of the research was carried out at SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar.This research was carried out at SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar in May 2023 to September 2023.The population in this study were all class VIII students at SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar, totaling 233 students.The sample in this study was determined using the Slovin formula and obtained results in class VIII-1 totaling 21 students, class VIII-2 totaling 21 students, class VIII-3 totaling 21 students, class VIII-4 totaling 21 students, class VIII-5 totaling 21 students, class VIII-6 with 20 students and class VIII-7 with 21 students.From the results of the sample calculations carried out, it can be determined that the number of samples used was 146 students.

Results
The validity test in this study used SPSS version 25.The level used to test the validity of the instrument was 0.05 %.Based on the results of the validity test, 35 students were tested with a total of 25 questions.
The statement item is declared valid if the value of rcount ≥ rtable with a significance level of α = 0.05 .From the results of the validity test, it can be seen that the correlation between each question item and the total score of n = 35 shows that the r table is 0.334.This means that if the correlation value is more than 0.334 then the question is considered valid.Based on the table above, it can be seen that the data obtained is all > 0.334, so it can be said that all statements are valid.

Instrument Reliability Test
For the questionnaire reliability criteria, if r count > r table with a significant level (α = 0.05 ) then the questionnaire is said to be reliable.However, if r count ≤ r table then the questionnaire is considered to have no reliability.If the Cronbach Alpha value is > 0.60 it is said to be reliable, but if the Cronbach Alpha value is < 0.60 it is said to be unreliable.
From the data obtained, it is known that the Cronbach Alpha obtained was 0.910 > 0.60 .From the results of calculating the reliability of teachers' social competence, it can be concluded that the research instruments used are reliable.

Data Normality Test Figure 1. Normal Probability P-Plot Curve
Based on the test results of the p-plot graph, it shows the conclusion that the data is spread around the diagonal line, so the data is declared normal.This can be seen in figure 1 above.From the output table above, the significance value = 0.012 is obtained, which is smaller than 0.05 , because the significance is less than 0.05, it can be concluded that between the variables of teacher social competence and student learning outcomes there is a significant linear relationship.From the results of the analysis above, it is known that 146 respondents produced a correlation value of 0.208.To interpret the strength of the relationship between two variables, this is done by looking at the correlation coefficient number calculated using the R value interpretation which is as follows. 0 : There is no correlation between two variables  > 0 -0.25 : Very weak correlation  > 0.25 -0.50 : Sufficient Correlation  > 0.50-0.75: Strong Correlation  > 0.75 -0.99 : Very strong correlation  1 : Perfect Correlation From the data above, it can be concluded that the teacher social competency variable (X) and the student learning outcome variable (Y) have a very weak relationship because they have a correlation value of 0.208.) with a significance level of 0.012 < 0.05 so it can be concluded that the teacher social competency variable partially has a positive and significant effect on student learning outcomes in social studies subjects in junior high schools.Negeri 7 Pematangsiantar.

Discussion
Based on the statistical analysis that has been carried out on each research variable, the researcher tries to provide a discussion of the problems discussed in this research, namely: The Influence of Teacher Social Competence (X) on Student Learning Outcomes (Y) in Social Sciences Subjects in Middle Schools Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar in 2023 .
The test results show that partially the Teacher's Social Competence (X) has a positive and significant effect on student learning outcomes as variable (Y) .This can be seen from the regression coefficient value of Teacher Social Competence (X) is 2.551 with a significance value of 0.012, so H 1 is accepted so that it can be concluded that Teacher Social Competence has a positive and significant effect on student learning outcomes in class VII social studies at SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar in 2023.
The results of this research are in line with research conducted by Mukarramah Gustan.The Influence of Teacher Social Competence on Social Studies Learning Outcomes for Class VIII Students at SMP Negeri 6 Parepare.There is a significant influence between the teacher's social competence on the social studies learning outcomes of class VIII students at SMP Negeri 6 Parepare.In the output results above, a significant value = 0.025 < 0.05 is obtained .So it can be concluded that a teacher must have social competence in understanding good teaching techniques in order to have an influence in improving student learning outcomes.
A teacher who has good teaching skills can certainly help improve students' understanding of the subject matter being presented, so that students can understand it easily, which will certainly have an impact on obtaining good test scores.

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on research on the Influence of Teacher Social Competence on Student Learning Outcomes in Class VIII Social Sciences Subjects at SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar TA. 2023/2024, the conclusion obtained is that there is a positive and significant influence between Teacher Social Competence on the Learning Outcomes of Class VIII Students in Social Sciences subjects at SMP Negeri 7 Pematang Siantar.This can be seen from the results of partial calculations (t test) on Teacher Social Competency (X) carried out using SPSS version 25, which shows the calculated t value > t table ( 2.551> 1.655 ) and a significant value (0.0 12 < 0.05 ) .

FURTHER STUDY
Due to the limitations in this research, it is hoped that future research will be more in-depth in exploring information and preparing instruments.So that more facts can be revealed that underlie teachers' social competence on student learning outcomes.

Table 4 Simple Linear Coefficients
In the table above, it is known that the constant value (a) is 52,358, indicating that if the teacher's social competence variable to improve learning outcomes is 0.211, that variable X to Y is said to be positive.So the regression equation is written: Y = a + bX Y = 52.358+0.211Theequationcanbe translated:1.A constant of 52.358 means that the consistent value of the participation variable is 52.358.2.The regression coefficientUsing this equation, you can predict Y based on a given X.For example, If X is 54, then the prediction of Y will be Y 52.358 + 0.211 ( 54 )

Coefficient of Determination Test Table 5 Coefficient of Determination Test Results Model Summary b
Based on the table above, the values show these criteria, so the values from calculated t and t table will be needed.For the calculated t , it is obtained from the t value in the Coefficient table , while for the T table it is obtained from the t table with a t table value of 1.65550, so it can be concluded that the value