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Elizabeth Glennie; Erich Lauff; Roger Studley; Ben Dalton – Grantee Submission, 2023
Earning industry certifications helps people prepare for jobs in a range of careers. Doing so in high school may help students prepare for college as well. Using administrative data on two cohorts of first-time 9th graders in Florida, we examined whether earning a certification was associated with postsecondary enrollment and degree attainment and…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Credentials, Certification, High School Students
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Elizabeth Glennie; Erich Lauff; Roger Studley; Ben Dalton – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2023
Earning industry certifications helps people prepare for jobs in a range of careers. Doing so in high school may help students prepare for college as well. Using administrative data on two cohorts of first-time 9th graders in Florida, we examined whether earning a certification was associated with postsecondary enrollment and degree attainment and…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Credentials, Certification, High School Students
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Eric Grebing; Julie Edmunds; Elizabeth Glennie; Brian Phillips; Fatih Unlu – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: Sometimes students with the academic credentials to attend more selective colleges enroll in a less selective institution or do not enroll at all, a phenomenon known as undermatching (Bowen et al., 2009; Roderick et al., 2011; Smith et al., 2013; Rodriguez, 2015). Undermatching is associated with lower graduation rates and…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, Control Groups, Postsecondary Education, Disadvantaged