The purpose of this research is to determine how the teaching skills practice experience (praktik keterampilan mengajar or PKM) and perception of teacher welfare being affect the interest in becoming a teacher among education students in Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, through self-efficacy as a mediating variable. This research uses a quantitative method with a purposive sampling technique to collect data from 162 respondents. Data analysis uses the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) based on Partial Least Square (PLS) with SmartPLS v4.1.0.9 and employs a Likert scale. The research found that: (1) PKM experience has a positive significant effect on interest in becoming a teacher, (2) PKM experience has a positive significant effect on self-efficacy, (3) Perception of teacher welfare has a positive significant effect on interest in becoming a teacher, (4) Perception of teacher welfare has a positive significant effect on self-efficacy, (5) Self-efficacy has a positive significant effect on interest in becoming a teacher, (6) Self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the influence of PKM experience on interest in becoming a teacher, and (7) Self- efficacy plays a mediating role in the influence of perception of teacher welfare on interest in becoming a teacher.
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