A Study of a Character Education Plan According to Character Levels and Requirements for College Students
AUTHOR : 김선주
INFORMATION : page. 1~19 / 2016 Vol.23 No.2
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to analyze character levels and educational requirements based on the
main pillars of the ‘Character Education Promotion Act (2015)’ as it pertains to college students.
The character levels of college students were assessed by the scale developed by Lee et al. (2013).
The college students’ educational requirements for courtesy, filial piety, honesty, responsibility,
respect, thoughtfulness, communication, and cooperation, stemming from the main pillars of the
‘Character Education Promotion Act’ were examined. The operational test was administered to 412
college students. By extension, data were analyzed using reliability test, t- test, and F-test. In an
effort to calibrate the character levels, the results displayed significance differences depending on the
seniority of the grade in the cognitive and behavioral domains, whereas no significance differences
were found in the affective domains. In the behavioral domains, seniors showed lower grades. With
the exception of thoughtfulness, seniors reported higher levels of educational requirements for
courtesy, filial piety, honesty, responsibility, respect, communication, and cooperation than 1st and 2nd
year students.