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Vocational Education; Cooperative Education; Coordinators; Secondary Schools; Vocational Training Centers; Delphi Technique; Academic Education; Barriers

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Cooperative education has been a long-standing component of career and technical education. The practice embodies many established theories of learning and is a premier delivery model for the school-to-work connections espoused by modern legislation. Yet in this era of high-stakes testing and academic accountability, allocated time for cooperative education at the secondary level is being reduced in favor of academic areas of accountability. Using a three-round Delphi technique, this study produced nine major categories containing 51 top issues perceived by secondary education diversified occupations and capstone cooperative education coordinators in Pennsylvania as significantly impacting their programs. Addressing these issues and overcoming the barriers to work-based education for all students can have far reaching implications for practitioners, policy makers and students. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Delphi Technique; Leadership; Administrator Role; Administrators; Vocational Education; School Administration

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Career and technical administrators are faced with a variety of issues and challenges that include, but are not limited to, providing effective ways to help students increase their academic and technical achievement, addressing staff development needs, and integrating CTE with rigorous academic instruction. The emergence of the identified leadership issues was extensive, and the issues command a significant portion of a career and technical administrator's time and resources. This article describes a three-round Delphi approach that identified leadership issues confronting career and technical administrators at the secondary and postsecondary levels in Pennsylvania. The results of the study produced seven major categories and 38 major issues that have implications for career and technical education in Pennsylvania. Career and technical administrators, more than ever before, face increasing leadership issues that have far-reaching implications that will affect their abilities to deliver quality programming for students pursuing entry into the workplace and matriculation to higher education. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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