This report from the CTE Research Network Lead team presents findings from interviews with 22 CTE programs to learn about their responses to the conditions presented by the pandemic, including the challenges staff and students faced, key lessons learned, innovations developed, and considerations for researchers to recognize when studying CTE programs during the pandemic.
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CTE Programs and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses, Innovations, and Implications for Future Research
To identify CTE programs ready for rigorous evaluation, the CTE Research Network Lead team conducted an evaluability assessment of more than 100 CTE programs nominated by the field. This infographic highlights the study's key findings, including summaries of the four programs identified as ready for rigorous evaluation.
This brief focuses on how CTE programs can improve outcomes and economic mobility for communities facing structural barriers and inequity. The brief summarizes the current state of CTE delivery, provides considerations for transitioning CTE programs online, and presents data on outcomes for students in online for-credit CTE programs.
Virtual Enterprises International (VEI) is an educational nonprofit that provides a year-long course in which students run a virtual firm. The hands-on, task-based curricula is designed to enable students to build in-demand career skills and competencies, experience authentic business experiences, develop an entrepreneurial mindset, and test drive potential careers.
This study from the Career & Technical Education Policy Exchange at Georgia State University focuses on differences in Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) credit accumulation and the specific courses students take by race, economic status, and gender characteristics.
This descriptive study, led by the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest in partnership with state agencies, examined whether high school graduates in Indiana and Minnesota who completed a large number of career and technical education courses in a single career-oriented program of study (concentrators) had different college and workforce outcomes from graduates who completed fewer (samplers) or no career and technical education courses.
This CTE Research Network symposium, presented virtually at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2021 Annual Meeting, discusses three network papers that suggest avenues for more high-quality CTE research in the future. Four presentations are available.
Kathy Hughes, director and principal investigator of the CTE Research Network, and Kelly Reese, the network's co-research lead, discuss the research on innovative CTE models and practices in this session presented at the CTE Innovation Summit on June 1.