The effect of ISO and leadership quality on the sustainable development of academic competence and student performance

Abstract

This study seeks to analyze the influence of the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) quality standards and leadership quality on the sustainable development of academic competence for lecturers and the implications for the academic performance of Islamic religious college students (PTKI). Data were collected through observation, questionnaires, and documentation and analyzed using multiple regression. The population for this study were all PTKI lecturers and students at the Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University, Malang, with a sample being selected by proportional random sampling stratification. The findings reveal that 1) ISO and leadership has a positive, significant influence on the sustainable development of PTKI lecturers’ academic competence, with the combined effect being much greater than the individual effects; 2) ISO, leadership, and sustainable academic competence development has a positive and significant influence on the academic performance of students, again with the combined influence being greater than the individual influences; 3) ISO has a significant indirect effect on student academic performance through the sustainable development of lecturers’ academic competence; and 4) ISO has an indirect effect on student academic performance through the sustainable development of lecturers’ academic competence.