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Participation in Secondary Vocational Education and its Relationship to Training-Related Placement and Unemployment Rates Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri - Columbia, 1989 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Education, Secondary; Educational Returns; Employment; Transition, School to Work; Vocational Education This study examined data from the NLSY and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' State unemployment rates for the years 1979 through 1986. These data were used to establish the following variables: level of participation in secondary vocational education, degree of training-related placement and unemployment rates. A General Linear Model ANOVA followed by Least Squares Means post-hoc analyses were used to test the relationship between a student's level of participation in secondary vocational education and the degree of training-related placement. Analysis of covariance was used to re-test this relationship while controlling for unemployment rates. Findings showed that about 23.5% of the graduates, who were available for work prior to pursuing further training, held jobs related to their training but only 2.5% of these graduates were considered to be in jobs directly related to their training. In contrast, of the graduates available for work prior to pursuing further training, 93% were working. Overall, this study found significant (at the 0.05 level) systematic relationships between the graduates' level of participation in secondary vocational education and their degree of training-related placement. In general, graduates who had a higher level of participation tended to have a higher degree of training-related placement. Finally, this study also found significant systematic relationships between level of participation and degree of training-related placement after controlling for unemployment rates. |
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Palmer, Kyle W. Participation in Secondary Vocational Education and its Relationship to Training-Related Placement and Unemployment Rates. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri - Columbia, 1989. |