Career and Technical Education: Academic Achievement and Graduation Rates of Students in the Commonwealth of Virginia

SAGE Open

Eleanor Hearst Blowe¹ 

关键词: academic performance;    career;    technical education (CTE);    completers;    noncompleters;    graduation rates;    Virginia;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244012455437

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

The No Child Left Behind legislation was signed into law to ensure children in the United States receive quality education and learn the skills needed to be successful. Career and technical education (CTE) is not mentioned in the legislation, which suggests that more CTE courses may be dropped from high school master schedules, which makes the topic a concern for educational leaders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the academic performance of CTE completers and non-CTE completers in the Commonwealth of Virginia on the standards of learning English reading and mathematics assessments as well as cohort graduation rates. Findings indicate that statistically (p < .05), CTE completers had higher mathematics and Grade 11 English reading pass rates as well as higher cohort graduation rates than those of non-CTE completers.

【 授权许可】

CC BY