This study was done to make basic data for adolescents' career education by examining educational effect when career search program was applied to help 1st grade students of high school with career selection and decision who were in stage of career se...
This study was done to make basic data for adolescents' career education by examining educational effect when career search program was applied to help 1st grade students of high school with career selection and decision who were in stage of career search and preparation.
Career education program used in this study consists of self understanding, search of work and job world, career decision and life planning.
Subject group of this study consisted of 56 members of two classes of 1st grade boys high school of humane studies located in Jeonju City of cholla-buk province in which students didn't take special entrance tests. They were divided each by 28 members of experimental group and control group.
The program was conducted one time a week and it was totaled to 15 times during the first semester and the duration of one class was 50 minutes.
Self-identity test, career maturity test and internal and external control test were used. And analysis of changable amount and t-verification was performed to prove the established theories using SPSS program for statistic analysis.
Study hypotheses are as follows;
First, students of experimental group who participated in the career education program will increase the feeling of self-identity more than those of control group.
Second, students of experimental group to which the career education program is applied will increase feeling of career maturity more than those of control group.
Third, degree of self identity development of students of internal control group to which the career education program is applied will be larger than those of external control group among experimental group to which the career education program is applied.
Fourth, degree of career maturity development of students of internal control group to which the career education program is applied will be larger than those of external control group among experimental group to which the career education program is applied.
Results of this study is as follows;
First, the level of self identity of experimental group was increased significantly compared with control group.
Second, the level of career maturity of experimental group was increased significantly compared with control group.
Third, Internal control group among groups to which the career education program is applied showed significant increasement of grade in before and after self identity and career maturity tests. External control group showed significant increasement of grade only in career maturity test.