The Effect of Teachers’ Certification Incentive toward Christian Religious Teacher’s Performance (A Causal Study at Senior High School Level in North Tapanuli Regency)

This study aim is to explore the effect of teachers' certification incentive toward Christian Religious teacher's performance at Senior High School level in North Tapanuli regency. The research used a quantitative research. The total number of respondents were 26 Christian Religious teacherswho have received certification incentive. A closed questionnaire was used as research instrument that distributed to respondents.Then, the answer of respondent calculated by using statistical analysis.The result of calculation was gained that value of determination coefficient test (r2) was 0.2992. It means that teachers' certification incentive affected teachers' performance amount 29.92%. Then, data analysis showed that tcount (3.201) > ttable (2.064). From the result, it can be stated that there is a positive effect of giving teachers' certification incentive ontheir performance.