Understanding the Role of Career and Technical Education in Building the STEM Pipeline

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

Once referred to as vocational education, CTE in the 21st century reflects both traditional trades as well as new areas of high growth like health services, information technology, and advanced manufacturing. Many of these newer pathways align with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focused fields, which often have expectations for some postsecondary training. In this panel, we explore how a variety of CTE offerings in high school facilitate student pathways in CTE with a connection to STEM-related pathways. Together, the papers in this panel reveal insights into who participates in different CTE pathways in high school, whether and where they transition into postsecondary education, and what differences exist in participation based on student family income, race, and gender.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Career and Technical Education

Cosponsor

• SIG-Workplace Learning

Chair

• Mary Gayle Visher, MPR Associates, Inc.

Papers

• Postsecondary and Workforce Pathways Among Students Who Pursue Career and Technical Education in High School - Shaun Michael Dougherty, University of Connecticut

• From Secondary to Postsecondary: Charting an Engineering "Career and Technical Education" Pipeline - Michael A. Gottfried, University of California - Santa Barbara; Jay Plasman, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Getting Into the Field: An Examination of STEM-Focused Career and Technical Education Coursework in High School and STEM Labor Market Participation After School - Cameron Sublett, Pepperdine University

• Evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative - Miya Tamiko Warner, SRI International; Kyra Caspary, SRI International