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ERIC Number: ED282984
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Dec
Pages: 66
Abstractor: N/A
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What Students Say about Vocational Programs. A Study of Vocational Education. Report #2.
South Carolina State Council on Vocational and Technical Education, Columbia.
This report is the second in a series of reports on an eight-part study of South Carolina's vocational education system. The report describes the methodology, findings, and conclusions of a study of students' perceptions of and experiences with the vocational system. Part I reports the results of a written survey administered to nearly 1,000 high school seniors and juniors in 12 schools across the state. Part II summarizes the results of follow-up telephone interviews with more than 300 high school graduates across the state who completed vocational courses in 1983. Some findings of the in-school survey were that (1) enrollment patterns in occupational courses followed traditional patterns--the largest proportion of students had taken business education and trade/industry courses; (2) in business education, the participation of white students was twice that of blacks; (3) more than one-half of the students who had taken vocational courses planned to go on to college; (4) vocational courses were seen as more important by those who had taken them than by those who had not; and (5) more than half of the students who had not taken vocational courses said they did not have time for them or were not interested. The structured telephone interviews with former students revealed that (1) nearly 60 percent were working, 15 percent were in college, 9 percent were in the military, and 17 percent were unemployed (only about 10 percent were looking for work); (2) nearly three-fourths of the graduates were satisfied with their training; and (3) the employment history of former graduates was relatively stable. Recommendations were made to improve the state's vocational programs based on the study data. (KC)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: South Carolina State Council on Vocational and Technical Education, Columbia.
Identifiers - Location: South Carolina
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