토픽모델링을 활용한 진로전담교사의 학교 진로교육에 관한 요구분석 = An Analysis of Career Teachers’ Demands for School Career Education Using Topic Modeling

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This study aimed to analyze the demands regarding of school career education, as expressed by career teachers, using topic modeling. To achieve this objective, response data from 1,836 career teachers who provided open-ended opinions on the activation and improvement of school career education in the 2020–2023 data of the national survey on career education in elementary and secondary schools were utilized. The main findings are as follows. First, with respect to school career education, the keywords that appeared most frequently based on Term Frequency(TF) were “experience”, “teacher”, “task”, “class”, and “activity”, whereas those with the highest frequency based on Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency(TF-IDF) were “training”, “counseling”, and “program”, “enter school”, “subject”. Second, the key topics related to school career education were derived into six categories: (1) social change in entrance exam-oriented education, (2) securing stable instructional time for career education by career teachers, (3) establishment of a dedicated department and appointment of the head of the department for professional performance of career teachers, (4) providing training to improve the awareness of career education and strengthen competence of school members, (5) strengthening support to provide various career experiences, and (6) reinforcing vertical and horizontal integration of career education. Third, as a result of analyzing the proportion of topics by school level related to school career education, elementary and middle schools had the highest proportion of strengthening support to provide various career experiences, and high schools had the highest proportion of social change in entrance exam-oriented education. Based on the research findings and discussions, the study concludes with recommendations for activating and improving school career education.