Abstract
The current study seeks to identify variables that affect the career decision-making of high school graduates with respect to the choice of university (re-)entrance in South Korea where education has great importance as a tool for self-cultivation and social prestige. For pattern recognition, we adopted a support vector machine with recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) with a big-data of survey of Korean college candidates. Based on the SVM-RFE analysis results, new enrollers were mostly affected by the mesosystems of interactions with parents, while re-enrollers were affected by the macrosystems of social awareness as well as individual estimates of talent and aptitude of individual systems. By predicting the variables that affect the high school graduates’ preparation for university re-entrance, some survey questions provide information on why they make the university choice based on interactions with their parents or acquaintances. Along with these empirical results, implications for future research are also presented.
Highlights
College admission is an important decision with career implications, which typically requires high-school graduates to commit to a 4-year-long course of studies before seeking careers, most Korean high-school graduates find it difficult to grasp their interests, aptitudes, and values, owing to the entrance exam-oriented academic environments
This study aims to identify and predict the variables that affect the career decision-making of high school graduates with respect toentering university in Korea where formal education is a good measurement of self-cultivation and social capital
An support vector machine with recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) was used instead of a simple support vector machine (SVM) to eliminate irrelevant and redundant variables from the survey results collected by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education in 2013
Summary
College admission is an important decision with career implications, which typically requires high-school graduates to commit to a 4-year-long course of studies before seeking careers, most Korean high-school graduates find it difficult to grasp their interests, aptitudes, and values, owing to the entrance exam-oriented academic environments. With the increasing importance of career education, recent studies have shed light on career-related decision-making processes and associated difficulties experienced by high-school students [2,3,4,5]. Little research exists on predicting the variables that affect college-related decision-making of high-school graduates as a first step toward choosing their career. These factors may differ depending on the number of attempts made by a prospective student to enroll in a course at a specific university. The study analyzes the factors that influence the decisions of readmission students as well as those that influence the decisions of students enrolling for the first time, with relevance to career planning and development
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