고교평준화제도와 사교육비 지출의 관계 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of high school equalization policy on private tutoring expense in Korea. The impact of ‘high school equalization policy’ on private tutoring expense was explored while controlling the effects of such background variables as ‘SES’, ‘region’, and ‘parents’ education level’. ‘Schooling dissatisfaction’ variable was used as a latent intermediate variable measured by three observed variables to investigate indirect effects of independent variables on the dependent variable. The sample used in this study consisted of 842 high school parents. SPSS and AMOS statistical software were used to analyze data. Covariance structure modeling method was applied to analyze the relations among measured independent variables, latent intermediate variable, and a measured dependent variable. The results tell us that the direct effect of high school equalization policy was turned out to have a negative relation on private tutoring expense as contrary to the hypothesis. However, the negative path coefficient was not statistically significant. Even though high school equalization policy was positively related with schooling dissatisfaction, the path coefficient was not statistically significant. While schooling dissatisfaction had statistically significantly positive relations with private tutoring expense. It can not conclude that high school equalization policy has any impact(direct and indirect) on private tutoring expense. Parents’ socio-economic status rather than high school equalization policy made direct impact toward the degree of private tutoring expense. The above figure shows the impacts of high school equalization policy and background variables on private tutoring expense with unstandardized path coefficients.