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ERIC Number: EJ1033608
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 33
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1554-754X
EISSN: N/A
Explaining Variability in High School Students' Access to and Enrollment in Career Academies and Career Theme Clusters in Florida: Multi-Level Analyses of Student and School Factors
Evan, Aimee J.; Burden, Frances F.; Gheen, Margaret H.; Smerdon, Becky A.
Career and Technical Education Research, v38 n3 p211-243 2013
Career academies have been effective in reducing the high school dropout rates and increasing academic course taking and course credit accumulation among students (Kemple & Willner, 2008; Kemple & Snipes, 2000). However, not all students have access to career academy programs as they are not universally implemented across the state of Florida (Estacion, D'Souza and Bozick, 2011). This study examines whether career academies are geographically clustered and what types of students have access to and what types of schools offer career academies and the career theme-clusters. With data from Florida's PK-20 Education Data Warehouse, Geographical Information System mapping was used to depict the distribution of career academy students in public schools across Florida and multilevel models to explain how student and school characteristics correlate with career academy and particular career-theme cluster enrollment.
Association for Career and Technical Education Research. Web site: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~laanan/actermain/publications.shtml
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Florida
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
Grant or Contract Numbers: 08-526