Assessing the Quality of Upper-Secondary Vocational Education and Training: Evidence from China

Autor/inn/en	Yi, Hongmei; Li, Guirong; Li, Liying; Loyalka, Prashant; Zhang, Linxiu; Xu, Jiajia; Kardanova, Elena; Shi, Henry; Chu, James
Titel	Assessing the Quality of Upper-Secondary Vocational Education and Training: Evidence from China
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 62 (2018) 2, S.199-230 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
Schlagwörter	Secondary School Students; Vocational Education; Longitudinal Studies; Safety; Well Being; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Behavior Problems; Antisocial Behavior; Risk; Incidence; Internship Programs; Dropouts; School Size; Teacher Qualifications; Expenditures; Correlation; Educational Quality; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sekundarschüler; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sicherheit; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Risiko; Vorkommen; Berufspraktische Ausbildung; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Lehrqualifikation; Ausgaben; Korrelation; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität
Abstract	An increasing number of policy makers in developing countries have made the mass expansion of upper-secondary vocational education and training (VET) a top priority. The goal of this study is to examine whether VET fulfills these objectives of building skills and abilities along multiple dimensions and further identify which school-level factors help vocational students build these skills and abilities. To fulfill this goal, we analyzed representative, longitudinal data that we collected on more than 12,000 students from 118 schools in one province of central China. First, descriptive analysis shows that approximately 90 percent of VET students do not make any gains in vocational or general skills. In addition, negative behaviors (misbehavior in the classroom, antisocial behavior, and other risky behaviors) are highly prevalent among VET students. A nontrivial proportion of student internships also fail to meet minimum government requirements for student safety and well-being. Perhaps as a result of these outcomes, more than 60 percent of students express dissatisfaction with their VET programs, as evidenced by either self-reports or dropping out. Finally, using a multilevel model, we find that school inputs (such as school size, teacher qualifications, and per pupil expenditures) are not correlated with vocational and general skill at the end of the school year, or student dropout in the academic year. (As Provided).
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