Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Korean Education Longitudinal Study (KELS2005):

An Analysis of the Lives and Achievements of Early Adulthood after Graduating from High School (Ⅲ)

On the theme of “the Lives and Achievement of Early Adulthood after Graduating from high school(Ⅲ)”, we conducted descriptive analyses on changes of learning features that students experienced through middle schools, high schools, and colleges using the data of ‘The Korean Education Longitudinal Study 2005’ collected from the 1st to the 9th survey. Also, we conducted in-depth analyses which include three topics: (1) latent class analysis on changes in career maturity of early adulthood that includes all possible types of subjects, college students, employees, and job seekers, (2) relations between college students’ school drop out intention, adaption to college, and sense of belonging, (3) level of college students civic consciousness and its influencing factors. Based on these analyses, the present study aimed to broaden understandings on early adulthood’s major development tasks, and to present related policy suggestions.