공모제 교장의 직무수행 능력에 대한 교사의 인식 분석

Abstract

This study is to investigate how the teachers perceive the school principal's job performance ability in the public subscription system, classified by the type of principal selection system, the type of the public subscription system of principal, school level, and teacher's sex. In addition, this study is also to present the implications for educational policy related to the public subscription system of school principals. In order to analyze the teacher's perception on the principal's job performance ability, this study employs a questionnaire survey for 774 teachers from 28 elementary and secondary schools located in Busan Metropolitan City. As a statistical tool, this study uses Student t-test, the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and Scheffe test. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the teachers perceive the job performance ability of principals selected under the seniority-based promotion system more positively than under the public subscription system, with respect to the type of principal selection system. Second, the teachers perceive the job performance ability of principals in the internally recruiting method more positively than in the invitational recruiting method, with respect to the type of public subscription system. Third, the teachers perceive the job performance ability of principals in the elementary schools more positively than in the secondary schools, with respect to the school level. However, there exists no significant difference between middle and high school teachers. Fourth, with respect to the teacher's sex, the male teachers on average perceive more positively than the female teachers. While there is no difference between male and female teacher's perception in the public subscription system, there is statistically significant difference in the seniority-based promotion system. These findings suggest that the psychological resistance of teachers against the public subscription system itself, which has been introduced by Korean Government initiatives without consensus among the major stakeholders including school teachers, results in the negative perceptions on the job performance ability of school principals selected under this new selection system. Therefore, in order to successfully establish the public subscription system as an important selection method of school principals, the broad support from the school teachers to this system should be required. Furthermore, since the preference for the specific type of the public subscription system is different depending on school levels, it is a more effective approach to its broad enforcement that the allocation ratio of the specific types of the public subscription system should be determined on the basis of school levels.