Career and Technical Education and Postsecondary Student Outcomes in Massachusetts: Career Clusters and Student Groups, Teacher Licensure, and Student Entry
Career and Technical Education and Postsecondary Student Outcomes in Massachusetts: Career Clusters and Student Groups, Teacher Licensure, and Student Entry
Description:
In this paper, the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) builds on prior work from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) that established a positive, causal link between student attendance in a subset of the state’s regional vocational technical schools (RVTSs) and long-term student outcomes. CALDER investigated three additional research questions by DESE: (1) the associations between participation in various CTE programs, student groups, and later student outcomes; (2) the associations between CTE teacher qualifications and later student outcomes; and (3) student entry into Massachusetts’s RVTSs.
