The purpose of this study is to conduct research of validity measuring
scientifically and objectively the career development and readiness of middle
school students. This study intend to verify outcomes after applying the
program of artistic and psychological treatment and collage career counselling
and provide basic data necessary for career education for middle school
students. The theoretical background was the establishment of models and
subfactors of the test of the degree of preparing career exploration through
considering preceding research and test tools related to career, maturity, and
development. The method of study was to analyze factors and compute
reliability coefficient by making out questions according to theoretical models
and then conducting a test for a total of 523 middle school students. The
conclusion of this study was as follows. First, subfactors of the test of the
degree of preparing career exploration were divided into career plan, career
identity, contextual background, self-efficacy, self-understanding, career
information, problem solving, decision making. Second, as a result of carrying
out the exploratory factor analysis of the test of the degree of preparing
career exploration, more than .30 of questions were found and reliability
coefficients of each factor were showed consistently ranging from .565 to
.934.