Promising Outcomes for Tech Prep Participants in Eight Local Consortia: A Summary of Initial Results.

Autor/in	Bragg, Debra D.
Institution	National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education, Columbus, OH.
Titel	Promising Outcomes for Tech Prep Participants in Eight Local Consortia: A Summary of Initial Results.
Quelle	(2001), (72 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Education; Articulation (Education); Comparative Analysis; Consortia; Educational Improvement; Employment Patterns; Enrollment; Integrated Curriculum; Longitudinal Studies; Outcomes of Education; Partnerships in Education; Postsecondary Education; Program Implementation; Relevance (Education); Staff Development; Student Employment; Tech Prep + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademische Bildung; Articulation; Artikulation (Ling); Artikulation; Aussprache; Vereinigung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Einschulung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Relevance; Relevanz; Personnel development; Personalentwicklung; Studentenarbeit; Dualsystem
Abstract	A study examined eight local consortia identified as mature Tech Prep implementers. The four-year research used a mixed-method longitudinal design involving repeated field visits, short and long interviews of key stakeholders, classroom observations, and document review and analysis. About 4,700 Tech Prep and non-Tech Prep participants were selected for a causal-comparative study of students' educational and employment outcomes, with 2 or 3 panels of high school graduates from 4 academic years per consortium. Mid-point findings showed Tech Prep centered on secondary education with goals and policies broadening and target populations shifting toward all students; consortia increasingly linked Tech Prep to state-level efforts to raise academic standards and enhance academic course-taking; core curriculum occurred in many forms, including starting at grade 9 rather than 11 and extending to the bachelor's degree; students' math course-taking varied across sites; teacher and counselor training was a prominent element in all consortia; preparatory services were conceptualized and implemented in different ways; all consortia experienced an increase in Tech Prep student enrollment; at least 65 percent of Tech Prep participants enrolled in some form of postsecondary education; and Tech Prep participants were more likely to be working. (Case studies of each consortium are provided. (Contains 17 references.) (YLB)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01