Using Propensity Score Matching to Determine the Efficacy of Secondary Career Academies in Raising Educational Aspirations
Data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 database was used to determine the effects of career academy participation in grades 9 or 10 on educational aspirations. Propensity score matching was used to obtain initially equivalent groups for analysis. No statistically significant
differences in postsecondary educational aspirations were found between adolescents who had participated in a career academy and those who had not, even when examined for gender and risk behavior effects. However, post hoc sensitivity analysis suggested this conclusion may actually underestimate
the influence that participation in a career academy has on educational aspirations.
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Keywords: career academies; educational aspirations; propensity score matching
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 2010
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