{"title":"The Perceived Influence of Industry-Sponsored Credentials on the Recruitment Process in the Information Technology Industry: Employer and Employee Perspectives","authors":"K. Bartlett, S. K. Horwitz, M. Ipe, Yuwen Liu","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V21I2.661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V21I2.661","url":null,"abstract":"The increase in the number of industry-sponsored credential programs raises many questions for career and technical education. This study investigated the perceived influence of industry-sponsored credentials on the recruitment process in the information technology (IT) field. Influence is examined from the perspective of Human Resource (HR) executives and their current IT employees to explore employer and employee differences in the role industry sponsored credentials and traditional education qualifications play in the recruiting process. Surveys were administered to HR executives and IT employees in a sample of large U.S. firms. Results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between employers and IT employees regarding the perceived influence of industry-sponsored credentials on recruitment. However, significant differences were found in the perceived influence of such credentials on the recruitment process when comparing IT employees with credentials and those without. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for researchers, career and technology education policy makers, and educators.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133444074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven R. Aragon, Hui-Jeong Woo, Matthew R. Marvel
{"title":"The Role of Skill Standards in the Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Community College Curriculum","authors":"Steven R. Aragon, Hui-Jeong Woo, Matthew R. Marvel","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V21I2.659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V21I2.659","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1990s, the United States found itself experiencing changes in its industrial mix, technology, and educational legislation(Carter 2005). As a result, new models of delivering skills and credentials were adopted so that the nation's educational system could better prepare students for a globally competitive workforce. According toCarter (2005), \"…one major change in the U.S. educational system was the increased reliance on, and prestige of, certification\" (p. 51). Employers are increasingly hiring employees with certifications as many of today's occupations require workers with skill levels between a high school diploma and a bachelor's degree.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115566911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Earning Industry-Recognized Credentials in High School: Exploring Research and Policy Issues","authors":"Marisa E. Castellano, J. Stone, Sam Stringfield","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V21I2.653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V21I2.653","url":null,"abstract":"The era of school accountability is upon us. In order to address past inequities and to ensure future achievement of minimum standards, the federalImproving America's Schools Act of 1994expected states to establish academic content and performance standards, and to implement assessments that measured student achievement against these standards. By the time the U.S. Congress passed theNo Child Left Behind Act of 2001,which called for comprehensive accountability systems in public schools, all of the 50 states already had some sort of assessment system for their K-12 schools (Goertz, Duffy, & Carlson Le Floch, 2001).","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116725255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DOES SCHOOL -TO-WORK MATTER? TEACHERS' IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHOOL-BASED AND WORK-BASED ACTIVITIES","authors":"Wenfan Yan, Karleen Goubeaud, Carol Fry","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.644","url":null,"abstract":"Although the success of School reforms such as the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) hinges on classroom teachers’ implementation of career-related activities, few quantitative studies have examined teachers’ implementation practices in STW programs. In this study, classroom teachers involved in a STW partnership in a Southwestern Pennsylvania school district were surveyed to determine the extent that they integrated school-based and work-based activities into their curriculum. The attitudes of teachers in the district were also examined in terms of their perceptions of the value of school-to-work and the benefits of the STW program for students. Analysis of the data indicated that teachers had favorable attitudes toward STW and the reform goals of the STW initiative. However, teachers’ implementation of career-related activities on average was low. Teachers were more likely to implement school-based activities than work-based activities. Significant differences were found among the STW implementation practices of teachers of various grade levels.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117247070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Delphi Technique: A Research Strategy for Career and Technical Education","authors":"E. Hyslop-Margison, J. Armstrong","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.646","url":null,"abstract":"This article illustrates how the generic employability skills approach to critical thinking suffers from serious conceptual and epistemological difficulties that impact deleteriously on both its practical effectiveness and democratic appropriateness. Unlike technical skills, employability skills, in this case cognitive capacities such as critical thinking and problem solving, are traditionally presented as not job specific, and are intended to remain broadly applicable across a variety of occupations and professions. The emphasis that career education places on technical rationality in critical thinking violates principles of democratic learning by disregarding the historical context of vocational experience. Within career education, critical thinking conceived as technical rationality refers to means/end reasoning that pursues human capital and business objectives with the maximum possible effectiveness. This article proposes that a more effective, politically empowering, and epistemically coherent approach to critical thinking promotes student understanding of the various forces shaping contemporary vocational experience. Finally, this article proposes a revised critical thinking construct based on foundational rationality to remedy these problems, and offers examples of concrete classroom strategies, such as praxis, problem-posing education and collaborative learning, that protect democratic learning in career education programs.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130304495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Influencing Enrollment in an Urban Agricultural Education Program","authors":"Levon T. Esters, Blannie E. Bowen","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.645","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing students to enroll in an urban agricultural education program. Former students' in the study indicated parents and/or guardians as the individuals most influencing their decision to enroll in an urban agricultural education program. However, former students' indicated their mother or female guardian as having more influence than the father or male guardian. Former students also indicated events and experiences focused around several themes influencing their decision to enroll in an urban agricultural education program. However, recruitment activities, interest in animals, agricultural career aspirations, and parents accounted for more than 50% of the events and experiences. Thus, for the participants in this study, it was concluded that there were several factors influencing their decision to enroll in an urban agricultural education program.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115678135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Math Course Taking For CTE Concentrators: Evidence from Three Studies of the Impact of a Decade of Education Reform","authors":"J. Stone","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V21I1.647","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an argument supported by evidence that the positive effects of education reform legislation take time to accumulate, and, given time, have the power to bring about improvement. Specifically, the course-taking patterns in mathematics of CTE students in the years following the 1990 Perkins II Act and 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act clearly show that these students are taking part in an increasing number of higher mathematics courses, while at the same time decreasing the number of lower-level math courses taken ( Levesque, 2003 ). These trends have developed over a number of years, accentuating the necessity of allowing for the passage of time before evaluating whether a particular reform movement has been successful.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124160709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Art and Politics of Peer Review","authors":"J. Rojewski, Desirae M. Domenico","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V20I2.635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V20I2.635","url":null,"abstract":"The publication of research and scholarly papers plays an integral role in advancing our understanding of and ability to act on issues related to workforce preparation and career development. At its very foundation, scholarly publication, regardless of field, rests on the editorial and peer review system. It is \"... an inevitable part of the process of getting published\" (Hawkey, 2001, p. 65).","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129312193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Core Periodicals in Career and Technical Education","authors":"C. Waugh","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V20I2.634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V20I2.634","url":null,"abstract":"Periodicals are essential resources to career and technical education researchers. Scholarly, refereed journals are the primary source for information used by researchers to build the theoretical or conceptual framework for their studies. Non-refereed trade magazines are often useful when researchers need information to establish the need for research and the implications that their findings may have on practitioners (Borg & Gall, 1989).","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130588742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Delphi Technique: a research strategy for career and technical education","authors":"Wanda L. Stitt-Gohdes, Tena B. Crews","doi":"10.21061/JCTE.V20I2.636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/JCTE.V20I2.636","url":null,"abstract":"Research literature in career and technical education is replete with studies using survey research as a means of seeking answers to any number of different questions. On occasion, however, one wishes to collect opinions of experts and, to the greatest extent possible, achieve consensus among them. For example, consensus among educators in a specific area about what technologies should be taught in today's technology-based world would be important to many educators and their students. This goal presents a unique research situation.","PeriodicalId":170496,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Career and Technical Education","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116253324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}