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Treatment of Race/Ethnicity in Career-Technical Education Research
This study examined how researchers of career-technical education have treated the construct of race/ethnicity in recent studies. Fifty-one of 71 articles published in the Career and Technical Education Research (CTER) over a 7-year span (2005-2011) were included. A content analysis
found that only one quarter (n = 13, 25.49%) of eligible studies reported the racial/ethnic composition of their samples. Race/ethnicity was most likely to be reported only (n = 10) when it was used in some type of inferential analysis. Further, only two thirds (n = 34, 66.67%) of published
studies reported the gender of research participants. The authors argue that the lack of precise descriptions of sample composition, including gender and race/ethnicity, weakens the potential impact of career and technical education research, and severely limit our inability to determine the
representativeness of samples studied and our ability to generalize findings to larger populations. Additional implications and suggestions for future research are offered.
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Keywords: career-technical education; ethnicity; generalizability; race; research reporting
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 2013
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