The purpose of this study is to develop a scale of multicultural teaching competence for
secondary school teachers and examine its validity. With this, the study is intended to
provide foundational data needed to help secondary school teachers to cultivate multicultural
competence to perform multicultural teaching properly. To attain the research goal, 30
questions were selected for the preliminary scale through the process of literature review
and expert examination. In the preliminary review, exploratory factor analysis was conducted
on the scale of multicultural teaching competence with 136 teachers of middle and high
schools located in Gyeongbuk, and next, the main survey was done to 382 secondary school
teachers. The detailed research findings can be summarized as below:
First, according to the results of exploratory factor analysis using the method for rotation
based on principal component analysis and direct oblimin, the finally selected survey
questions and subfactors of the multicultural teaching competence scale for secondary school
teachers were total 3 subfactors and 16 questions including multicultural teachingㆍ
learning-related skills (factor1, 7 questions), multicultural prejudiceㆍrelationship-related
attitudes(factor2, 6 questions), and multicultural recongitionㆍrespect-related knowledge(factor3,
3 questions). Second, according to the results of conducting internal consistency reliability
analysis on the questions, Cronbach’s value was found to be higher as .917, and the scale
developed by this study can be regarded reliable. Third, according to the results of
confirmatory factor analysis, all the path coefficients between latent variables and measured
variables were found to be statistically significant at the level of p=.000, and all the C.R.
values were appropriate as 1.965 or higher. Also, the confirmatory factor analysis model’s
goodness-of-fit indexes were found to be RMSEA=.048, IFI=.926, TLI=.912, and CFI=.926;
therefore, all the values satisfy the level of goodness-of-fit favorably.