진로검사에 대한 초등학생의 인식

Abstract

This study was conducted to identify elementary school students’ perceptions of career assessments and its problems, and provide recommendations accordingly. In order to do so, this study surveyed fifth and sixth-grade students on the perceptions, use and problems of career assessments, and analyzed the data descriptively and by using t-test. The main arguments of the research are as follows. First, 87.8% of the students had taken career assessments before with the most frequent tests being career aptitude tests, career development tests, and vocational interest tests. Second, perceptions on career assessments were lower than average indicating that students found the tests to be difficult, while there were no significant differences between genders or grades. Third, help received through explanations during the tests were perceived to be higher than average, with fifth graders and female students receiving more help when compared against sixth graders and male students respectively. Fourth, career assessments were used most frequently by the students themselves, followed by to counsel with parents, to exchange information with friends, and consult with teachers. Fifth, the importance of career assessments and the perceptions of students on how useful it was in their career decision were above average, and in particular, female students found it more useful than their male counterparts. Sixth, students responded that the questionnaire should be more easily structured, and the interpretations of the assessment more detailed in order to improve the current assessments. Seventh, regarding the differences in career development based on how the assessments were used, students who had consulted with parents, teachers, siblings and among friends were found to show significantly higher level of career development.