The purpose of this study was to determine the long-term effect of participation in secondary vocational education and Co-operative Education for non-college attending high school graduates in general, and selected ethnic minorities and females specifically. Minority individuals represented in the study were African-American and Hispanic-American high school graduates from the 1980 sophomore cohort of the High School and Beyond, Fourth Follow-up. While previous research has purported to show that secondary vocational education has short-term economic benefit for non-college attending youth, these benefits have been mixed and/or nonexistent for minority youth. Few studies have examined the long-term benefit of participation in vocational education during high school.
Path analysis was used to examine the long-term direct and indirect effects of secondary vocational education on the post secondary labor market experiences of non-college attending females and selected minorities. A causal model was devised to determine the influence of taking vocational education courses and participation in Co-op during high school on length of employment and annual income for young people entering the labor force with only a high school diploma.
For non-college attending youth, these analyses found no long-term effect on their post graduation labor market experiences as a result of taking secondary vocational education courses and/or participating in Co-op during high school. / Ed. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/37347 |
| Date | 13 February 2009 |
| Creators | Martin, Antigo Delores |
| Contributors | Counseling and Student Personnel Services, Wolfle, Lee M., McDaniels, Carl O., Geller, E. Scott, Solly, David C., Wolfle, Lee M., Asselin, Susan B. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation, Text |
| Format | viii, 126 leaves, BTD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 34827716, LD5655.V856_1995.M378.pdf |
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