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Delci, Mario Stern, David |
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Who Participates in New Vocational Programs? A Preliminary Analysis of Student Data from NLSY97 NCRVE Publication MDS-1300. Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California - Berkeley, November 1999. Also: http://136.165.122.102/UserFiles/File/mdspubs/mds1300.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California, Berkeley Keyword(s): Education, Secondary; Educational Attainment; High School; High School Curriculum; Transition, School to Work; Vocational Education; Vocational Training Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper presents a first look at new data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). The two main purposes of this paper are (1) to compare students in combined academic/vocational programs with high school students in other curricular categories in 1997 and (2) to compare the 1997 patterns with those found in earlier surveys. Previous studies have found that the proportion of high school students participating in vocational course sequences has declined during the 1980s and early 1990s, and vocational concentrators have increasingly represented a low-achieving segment of the student population. To counter these tendencies, public and private initiatives have promoted new forms of high school vocational education that include academic studies and lead to postsecondary education. A survey of high school administrators for NLSY97 found a marked increase in the prevalence of certain new vocational programs in the 1990s. This paper examines student data from NLSY97 to determine which students are participating in these new programs...This first look at the NLSY97 student data seems to confirm that new vocational programs, which permit students to combine academic and vocational studies, have moved career and technical education toward the mainstream of the high school curriculum and engaged a broader cross-section of the student population. Judgments about whether this trend is good or bad depend on beliefs about the purposes of vocational education in high school. |
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Delci, Mario and David Stern. Who Participates in New Vocational Programs? A Preliminary Analysis of Student Data from NLSY97. NCRVE Publication MDS-1300. Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California - Berkeley, November 1999.. |