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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epa](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epa)  \nLinkage Between Fields of Focus in High School Career Technical Education and College Majors  \nZeyu Xu  \nBen Backes  \nAmerican Institutes for Research  \nThis study examines the extent to which students obtain postsecondary credentials in the career technical education (CTE) fields of focus they choose in high school. Using school fixed-effects models, we find that focusing on a particular CTE field in high school is associated with an increased probability of enrolling and obtaining a postsecondary credential in thatfield. The secondary–postsecondary relationship varies across focus areas, and it is strongest in health (increase of 12.5 percentage points), which is disproportionately chosen by females. Across all fields of focus, however, most students enroll and obtain a postsecondary credential infields that are different from what they focused on in high school.  \nKeywords: career development, higher education, postsecondary education, correlational analysis, longitudinal studies, regression analyses  \ncareer technical education (CTE) has traditionally focused on the connection between schooling and employment. In recent decades, the recognition that at least some postsecondary education is needed to prepare students for the workforce has led to an increasing emphasis on the postsecondary transitions of secondary CTE students (Dougherty & Lombardi, 2016) . One of the widely adopted strategies to smooth the transition to college has been creating CTE course sequences that culminate in the attainment of a postsecondary credential. These CTE course sequences are structured to help students focus study in a particular CTE field early, 1 which is thought to increase the chances of students persisting in that field beyond high school and completing credentials at the postsecondary level (Alfeld et al., 2013; Scott-Clayton, 2011) . Student surveys, however, suggest that highschool students generally do not have a good understanding about the careers in which they have expressed interest and their stated career objectives align poorly with the CTE courses they take (DeFeo, 2015) . Thus, CTE coursework  \ntaken in high school does not necessarily reflect students’ true career interests, and, even if it did, college major choice is a sequential decisionmaking process that is influenced by time-varying factors like labor market conditions, preferences, and preparation (Altonji et al., 2012) . As a result, fields of focus in high school CTE may not mark the beginning of a welldefined pipeline of career interest as designers of CTE programs may have hoped.  \nIn this descriptive study, we use longitudinal, student-level administrative records from Kentucky to examine the extent to which students initially major in as well as eventually obtain postsecondary credentials in the CTE fields they choose in high school. Answering this question is important for at least two reasons. First, college completion and labor market returns vary considerably across fields. For example, among Kentucky community college students, the return to an associate’s degree in health (relative to a high school diploma) is estimated to be about US$4,000 per quarter, whereas returns for associate’s degrees in humanities or  \nXu and Backes  \nbusiness fields are not statistically significant (Jepsen et al., 2014) . In addition, there is some evidence that students do not always make informed choices (Long et al., 2015) . Emerging evidence suggests that students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to sort into programs and colleges with lower labor market returns (Lovenheim & Smith, 2022) . If t","cbCaiqwAdljsyuSo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqwAdljsyuSo","pdf",670555,23,"English","# Introduction\n## CTE and postsecondary transitions\n## Study purpose and policy relevance","[{\"question\":\"What does the study investigate about CTE and college outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"It examines whether students obtain postsecondary credentials in the same CTE fields of focus they choose in high school.\"},{\"question\":\"What method does the study use to analyze the relationship?\",\"answer\":\"It applies school fixed-effects models using longitudinal, student-level administrative records from Kentucky.\"},{\"question\":\"How strong is the secondary-to-postsecondary relationship across different CTE focus areas?\",\"answer\":\"The relationship varies by focus area and is strongest in health, with an increase of 12.5 percentage points, disproportionately chosen by females.\"}]","Linkage Between Fields of Focus in High School Career Technical Education and College Majors | PDF",1792095847,58]