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Kenneth A. Shores; Sanford R. Student – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We use student-level administrative data from Delaware for 43,767 high school students across five 12th grade cohorts from 2017 to 2021. We apply Item Response Theory (IRT) to high school transcript data, treating courses as items and grades as ordered responses, to estimate both student transcript strength ([theta]) and course difficulty. We…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Academic Records, Course Selection (Students), Grades (Scholastic)
Yue Huang; Hojung Lee; Arielle Lentz; Kenneth Shores – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Career and Technical Education (CTE) prepares students for life beyond high school by providing practical labor skills, workforce credentials, and early post-secondary credits. States are required to report the number of CTE concentrators to receive federal Perkins funding, but systems of identifying students as concentrators vary among states. We…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, High School Students, Career Pathways, Track System (Education)