Career-Technical Education Research News

Corinne Alfeld, principal investigator of Programs of Study: A Longitudinal Analysis, talked to Catherine Imperatore at ACTE about early observations derived from three site visits she made this spring to high schools participating in her POS longitudinal study.

Here’s an excerpt from their conversation:

CA: What we did is we looked at programs that may have started under Tech Prep or as career pathways, and we selected them because they included a lot of components of the Programs of Study that are in Perkins IV. We found that mostly it’s the college and not the high school that initiates the partnership. Of course, these are just observations from these eight sites, so not generalizable, but that was kind of interesting. We’re not sure why that is and not sure how widespread that is but that was an interesting pattern.

At the sites where Programs of Study are working really well we found that the players involved had really good, close relationships with each other, and they also had active advisory groups that included people from both secondary and postsecondary levels and also from the business community on the advisory committees.

Read more about the Programs of Study: A Longitudinal Analysis study at the NRCCTE website. Read the transcript here.

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