Does Career and Technical Education Affect College Enrollment?

Autor/inn/en	DeLuca, Stefanie; Plank, Stephen; Estacion, Angela
Institution	National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, St. Paul, MN.; National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education, Columbus, OH.
Titel	Does Career and Technical Education Affect College Enrollment?
Quelle	(2006), (52 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Majors (Students); Technical Education; Enrollment; College Attendance; Job Shadowing; Cooperative Education; Tech Prep; Economic Status; Incidence; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Technikunterricht; Einschulung; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Kooperativer Unterricht; Dualsystem; Vorkommen
Abstract	Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) and its transcript component, we examine vocational education (now known as career and technical education, or CTE) for a recent cohort of youths. We describe and distinguish between CTE coursetaking and participation in particular career-related programs of courses and activities (career majors, tech-prep, and work-based learning programs such as job shadowing and cooperative education). We find that the majority of American high school students participate in CTE courses and work-related activities, and this holds across demographic subgroups. Black students participate in career-related programs at higher rates than any other group, while males and females participate at similar rates. Students in the lowest income quartile are the least likely to report participation in career-related programs and activities, but the most likely to take proportionately more career and technical education courses than academic ones. Students who scored in the bottom half of the ASVAB Arithmetic Reasoning test distribution are also more likely to take high ratios of CTE-to-academic courses. We find that while participation in career-related programs does not generally impede college attendance, higher ratios of CTE-to-academic courses are associated with reductions in the chances of college attendance, even after adjusting for selection characteristics often associated with course trajectories. Appended are: (1) Use and Preparation of NLSY97 High School Transcript Data; and (2) Unweighted Descriptive Statistics: NLSY97 Youths Born in 1980 and Transcript Subsample. (Contains 10 tables and 38 footnotes.) (Author).
Anmerkungen	National Research Center for Career and Technical Education. Available from: The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education. 1900 Kenny Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1090. Tel: 800-678-6011; Tel: 614-292-9931; Fax: 614-688-3258; e-mail: ndccte@osu.edu; Web site: http://www.nccte.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10