Do Individualized Learning Plans Help Students Achieve Employment Goals Through Career Technical Education Course-Taking?

• In Event: Secondary Career and Technical Education: Success and Impacts

Abstract

Given the claimed role of individualized learning plans (ILPs) in guiding students’ course-taking based on their college and career goals, we examined whether ILP guided career and technical education (CTE) course taking to achieve employment goals. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:2009), results showed ILP had positive associations with successfully establishing an employment goal, securing employment, and achieving the employment goal after high school. Students who planned to work after high school were likely to take more CTE credits, resulting in higher probabilities of securing employment after high school. However, ILP did not moderate the relationship between employment goal and CTE credits nor the relationship between employment goal and work activity.

Authors

• Xue Xing, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Maximum Sirabian, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Jay W. Rojewski, University of Georgia