In order to cope with the accelerating social change and to design one's future and achieve the vision, it is necessary to clarify and prepare for the career goals during the college years. In particular, in order to be competitive in the future socie...
In order to cope with the accelerating social change and to design one's future and achieve the vision, it is necessary to clarify and prepare for the career goals during the college years. In particular, in order to be competitive in the future society, it is very important to prepare for self-learning, to set up a learning strategy with an achievement intention, and to lead learning with responsibility for one's own learning and team learning activities.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to select self-directed learning readiness, creative achievement intention, and metacognitive learning strategy as variables that affect learning leader competency based on previous studies, and to clarify the relationship between these variables and learning leader competency.
The subjects of this study were 770 college students enrolled in a four-year universities located in Seoul and Gyeonggi area, and tests were conducted on them. The measurement tools were the creative achievement intention test(Lee Ka-hyung, Lee Kyung-hwa, 2020b), the metacognitive learning strategy test(Lee Kyung-hwa, Choi Eun-ju, 2021a), and the self-directed learning readiness test(Choi Eun-ju, Lee Kyung-hwa, 2021b) and the learning leader competency test (Lee Kyung-hwa, Choi Eun-ju, 2021b) were developed and validated in this study. The data collection period was from September 3, 2021 to September 21, 2021, and the final 762 data were analyzed, excluding 8 insincere out of 770 data. The data were statistically processed using the SPSS 25.0 program and PROCESS macro for SPSS (ver. 3.5), descriptive statistics were analyzed, reliability was calculated, and correlation was confirmed.
In order to verify the moderated mediation effect and dual mediation effect of creative achievement intention and metacognitive learning strategy in the influence of self-directed learning readiness on learning leader competency, the suitability of Hayes(2013) PROCESS macro Model 7(moderated mediation effect) and Model 6(dual mediation effect) was verified. In addition, the statistical significance of mediating effect was confirmed through bootstrapping. The research results are as follows.
First, the moderated effect of creative achievement intention was confirmed in the mediation of metacognitive learning strategy in the relationship in which university students' self-directed learning readiness affects learning leader competency. In other words, hypothesis 1 was adopted that university students' self-directed learning readiness would have direct effect on learning leader competency, and hypothesis 2 was adopted that self-directed learning readiness would have indirect effect on learning leader competency through metacognitive learning strategy. Hypothesis 3 was adopted that creative achievement intention would moderate the relationship between self-directed learning readiness and metacognitive learning strategy, which is a mediating variable. Finally, hypothesis 4 was adopted that self-directed learning readiness would be moderated by creative achievement intention to indirectly affect learning leader competency through a metacognitive learning strategy.
Second, the dual mediating effect of creative achievement intention and metacognitive learning strategy was confirmed in the relationship in which self-directed learning readiness affects learning leader competency. In other words, hypothesis 5 was adopted that self-directed learning readiness would have an indirect effect on learning leader competency by achievement intention and metacognitive learning strategy which dual-mediated variables.
This study is meaningful in that it set the creative achievement intention which had not been dealt with in previous studies on the influence relationship of self-directed learning readiness on learning leader competency as a moderating variable and confirmed the influence of creative achievement intention and metacognitive learning strategy as dual mediator variables. In addition, the results of this study can be the basis for the composition of the curriculum to enhance the learning leader competency of university students. In other words, it will be helpful to construct various curriculums considering self-directed learning readiness, creative achievement intention, and metacognitive learning strategy that directly or indirectly affect to to improve university students' learning leader competency.