Korean vocational secondary school students' metacognition and lifelong learning

The aim of this research is to analyze Korean Vocational Secondary School Students' metacognition, attitude toward lifelong learning, and motivation factor to lifelong learning, and investigate whether these had an effect on their lifelong learning. This research analyzed after-school deeply as one of lifelong learning activities. I conduct frequency analysis, latent class analysis, and multiple regression analysis as methodology. The results were following: a) 75% of respondents have ever experienced the after-school learning; b) only 23% of the surveyed considered after-school learning is needed; c) the critical obstacles to after-school learning were deficiency of time(32.5%) and finance obstacle(28.2%); d) four underlying types of motivation to after-school learning were identified, namely, Class (job Search), Class (leisure centered job skill), Class (civic competency), and Class (lack of motivation); e) Based on multiple regression analysis, as a predictor of effect on lifelong learning, variables including experience of after -school learning were significant. (C) 2013 The Authors Published by Elsevier Ltd.