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The impact of choosing a vocational track on academic performance and college enrollment in Portugal
| Resumo: | This work assesses how the students’ high school track choice affects grade progression and drop-out rate throughout high school as well as college enrollment using a logistic regression and a PSM approach. It uses students’ characteristics, social background, past educational results and the students’ college entrance expectation in the 10th grade as control and matching variables. Follows a cohort of students in the 10th grade in school year 2010/2011 up until 2014/2015. The main findings are that, controlling for college enrollment expectation, choosing a vocational track increases the probability of transition and high school completion, but also the dropout rate. |
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| Autores principais: | Ramos, Ângelo Miguel Calmeiro |
| Assunto: | Vocational education College enrollment Academic success Binary dependent model Propensity score matching |
| Ano: | 2017 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This work assesses how the students’ high school track choice affects grade progression and drop-out rate throughout high school as well as college enrollment using a logistic regression and a PSM approach. It uses students’ characteristics, social background, past educational results and the students’ college entrance expectation in the 10th grade as control and matching variables. Follows a cohort of students in the 10th grade in school year 2010/2011 up until 2014/2015. The main findings are that, controlling for college enrollment expectation, choosing a vocational track increases the probability of transition and high school completion, but also the dropout rate. |
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