Effects of Career Change Opportunities for Graduates After Graduation from an Educational Institute
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/lir.v006.480Keywords:
adult learner, cluster analysis, k-means, questionnaireAbstract
In modern society, where drastic transformations of social structures are occurring, relearning new knowledge and skills for adults is becoming progressively vital thanks to the widespread proliferation of various educational methods. Under these circumstances, our study aims to analyze the underlying factors of study motivation of adult learners. To reveal the factors and relationships between before enrollment and after graduation, we performed multivariate analysis on a questionnaire targeted at general adult learners. Based on these observations, we created a questionnaire aimed at the graduate students of our affiliation. Factor analysis has yielded five factors reflecting the curriculum of our institute. Besides the questions analyzed in our previous work, we also posed a question about usefulness for work, which could be an important clue to evaluating the effectiveness of our curriculum. Therefore, in this paper we performed cluster analysis to examine the tendency in the graduates’ career changes after graduation. In executing cluster analysis, three sets of feature values were analyzed with four clusters. As a result, it can be suggested that among clusters with high competence, the entire opposite groups can be observed; that is, some graduates stay in the same organizations as before, while others seek new environments.
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