Does Career and Technical Education Affect College Enrollment?

Does Career and Technical

Education Affect College

Enrollment?

This report is based on research conducted by the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education University of Minnesota

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Does Career and Technical Education Affect College Enrollment?

DOES CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AFFECT COLLEGE ENROLLMENT?

Stefanie DeLuca Stephen Plank Angela Estacion Johns Hopkins University

National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

University of Minnesota

February 2006

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Project Title: Grant Number:

FUNDING INFORMATION

National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education

V051A990004

National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

VO51A990006

Grantees:

Directors: Percentage of Total Grant Financed by Federal Money: Dollar Amount of Federal Funds for Grant:

The Ohio State University National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education 1900 Kenny Road Columbus, OH 43210

Floyd L. McKinney

100%

$1,100,000

University of Minnesota National Research Center for Career and Technical Education 1954 Buford Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108

James R. Stone, III

100%

$2,237,615

Act Under Which Funds Administered: Source of Grant: Disclaimer:

Discrimination:

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 Pub. L. No. 105-332

Office of Vocational and Adult Education U. S. Department of Education Washington, DC 20202

The work reported herein was supported under the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education, PR/Award (No. VO51A990004) and/or under the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, PR/Award (No. VO51A990006), as administered by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education.

However, the contents do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education or the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government.

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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, techprep, 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 workrelated 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.

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