Linkage between Fields of Concentration in High School Career-Technical Education and College Majors. Working Paper No. 269-0722

Autor/inn/en	Xu, Zeyu; Backes, Ben
Institution	National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research
Titel	Linkage between Fields of Concentration in High School Career-Technical Education and College Majors. Working Paper No. 269-0722
Quelle	(2022), (48 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	High School Graduates; Academic Persistence; Postsecondary Education; Vocational Education; High School Students; Correlation; Occupations; Vocational Interests; College Students; Two Year Colleges; College Attendance; Career Choice; Student Characteristics; Majors (Students); Kentucky + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Korrelation; Beruf; Berufsumfeld; Berufsinteresse; Collegestudent; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit
Abstract	In this descriptive study, we use longitudinal student-level administrative records from 4 cohorts of high school graduates in Kentucky to examine the extent to which students persist and attain post-secondary credentials in the CTE fields of concentration they choose in high school. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to use student-level administrative data to examine how different fields of concentration in high school CTE are related to future postsecondary outcomes. We find that concentrating in a particular CTE field in high school is associated with both continuing on with that same field in college and obtaining a postsecondary credential in that field; this relationship is especially strong in health fields and especially for women in health. The secondary-postsecondary connection is the weakest among students concentrating in occupational fields in high school, who are also the most disadvantaged socioeconomically and academically before high school. Despite the existence of secondary-postsecondary pipelines of career interests, most students enroll and obtain credentials in fields that are "different" from the field of concentration in high school. In addition, relative to students with similar pre-high-school achievement as measured by grades and test scores, we find that CTE concentration in high school is strongly associated with being more likely to enroll in a two-year college and less likely to enroll in a four-year college. (As Provided).
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