TY - JOUR T1 - Mediating Effect of Teacher Empowerment Between Entrepreneurial Leadership and School Effectiveness AU - Dahiru, Abbas Sani AU - Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope AU - Basri, Ramli AU - Hassan, Siti Aishah JO - The Social Sciences VL - 12 IS - 11 SP - 2077 EP - 2084 PY - 2017 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2017.2077.2084 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.2077.2084 KW - Teacher empowerment KW -entrepreneurial leadership KW -school effectiveness KW -better enhanced KW -mediating effect AB - This study intends to investigate the mediating effect of teacher empowerment between entrepreneurial leadership and school effectiveness. The research adopted a correlational design with a total sample of 358 teachers in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Data was collected through survey method and was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential (structural equation modeling) statistics analysis. The findings of the study indicated that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurial leadership, teacher empowerment and school effectiveness. Furthermore, teacher empowerment was found to be a mediator between entrepreneurial leadership and school effectiveness. This implies that the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and school effectiveness is better enhanced through teacher empowerment. ER -