Postsecondary Educational Experiences of High School Career and Technical Education Concentrators. Selected Results from the NELS:88/2000 Postsecondary Education Transcript Study (PETS) 2000

摘要

The purpose of this publication is twofold. First, it presents data on the postsecondary educational experiences of students from the high school class of 1992 who concentrated in CTE while in high school, including information on their postsecondary enrollment, coursetaking, and degree attainment. Second, it demonstrates the richness and unique potential of the dataset analyzed, the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000). NELS:88/2000 is one of only two data collections-and the most recent-to have gathered both high school and postsecondary transcripts from a nationally representative sample of students.1 Other analysts, notably Adelman, have used NELS:88/2000 to examine relations between academic coursetaking in high school and postsecondary experiences (Adelman 2006, 2004b; Adelman, Daniel, and Berkovits 2003). The contribution of this current publication is its focus on high school CTE students and their subsequent educational experiences.