상업계 고등학교의 교육성과와 영향 요인간의 인과적 모형

The purpose of this study was to establish the causal structural model among transformational leadership, job characteristics and teacher empowerment associated with educational outcomes of business high schools. The specific objectives were 1) to analyze the effects of transformational leadership and job characteristics on educational outcomes, 2) to analyze the effects of teacher empowerment on educational outcomes, 3) to analyze the effects of transformational leadership and job characteristics on teacher empowerment, 4) to analyze the mediating effects of teacher empowerment between transformational leadership․job characteristics and educational outcomes. Data were collected from 261 teachers in business high schools(response rate: 70.2%). After screening the data 229 responses were used in the analysis. The SPSS program for window and LISREL program were used to analyze the data for this study. The statistical method used in this study was the covariance structure analysis estimating parameters by maximum likelihood method. Path coefficients were tested for t-tests with a statistical significance level of .05. The conclusions of this study are as follows: 1. The result of this analysis revealed a generally fit to the data: =169.12(p<.05); /df=60; GFI=.90; CFI=.90; IFI=.91; NNFI=.88. 2. Transformational leadership had positive effects on educational outcomes(β=.34, p<.01). 3. Teacher empowerment had positive effects on educational outcomes(β=.37, p<.01). 4. Job characteristics had positive effects on teacher empowerment(β=.79, p<.01). 5. The indirect effect of Job characteristics on educational outcomes were mediated by teacher empowerment(β=.29, p<.01).