Abstract:
The National Standard of Education (NSE) in Indonesia is a legitimate instrument
to reach the best achievement. Yet, there are still the other positive factors, especially on
economics subjects. This research aimed to find out the direct effect of the national standard of
education (NSE) involving in a standard of content (SC), standard for educator and education
staff (SEE), standard of facilities (SF), standard of assessment (SA), standard of the process
(SP) and competence graduate standard (CGS) on achievement motivation (AM) and economics
learning achievement (ELA), and to find out the indirect influence of SC, SEE, SF, SA, SP, and
CGS on ELA through AM. This descriptive quantitative research used a survey to collect the
data. The population is Indonesian senior high school students who have learned the economy
for, at least. A total of 1065 students were selected through using proportional stratified random
sampling with the Slovin formula (error = 1%). The data in this study were collected through
The data were subsequently analyized using Structural Equation Modeling (Partial Least Square
approach). The result of this research showed that there was a direct effect of SC, SEE, SF, SA,
SP, and CGS and AM on ELA. Then, there was an indirect effect of SC, SEE, SF, SA, and CGS
on ELA through AM as a mediating variable.
Keywords: curriculum, achievement, motivation, the national standard of education
