Fiddlers Green College: Looking for Equitable Workforce Pathways in Silicon Valley
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Often, research on the efficacy of postsecondary workforce programs does not convey their impact on true social mobility. The purpose of this study is to investigate project-based Career and Technical Education (CTE) workforce pathways in Silicon Valley. 1 This study takes a step towards better understanding what constitutes the metrics that explain functioning pathways. In contributing to Project-Based Learning (PBL) theory, Amaral et al. (2015) found that seven PBL essentials form good learning outcomes; Creghan and Adair-Creghan (2015) then showed a measurable outcome of PBL is higher attendance, to which Plasman and Gottfried (2020), using a case of Applied STEM CTE (AS-CTE), framed attendance as a predictor of the efficacy of a workforce pathway. Recommendation: Through ethnography, the investigators observed that when social mobility was added as a metric of high quality PBL with AS-CTE in a predictive ontology framework of education success, an improved level of attendance was observed. The authors conclude that using the seven essentials and social mobility as a metric of PBL helps explain the observation of PBL's improved efficacy. Hence, social mobility should be a metric of PBL AS-CTE program outcomes.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date modified | January 30, 2023; July 26, 2023 |
| Publication date | January 30, 2023; December 1, 2021 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Montoya, Jonathan | |
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| Author | Peterson, Forest |
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| Author | Kinslow II, Anthony | |
| Author | Fruchter, Renate | |
| Author | Fischer, Martin | |
| Author | Bustamante, Andres Sebastian |
Subjects
| Subject | Social mobility |
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| Subject | Career technical education |
| Subject | Workforce pathways |
| Subject | Equity |
| Subject | Virtual design and construction |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Article |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tg593xx0974 |
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- Montoya, J., Peterson, F., Kinslow II, A., Fruchter, R., Fischer, M., and Bustamante, A. (2023). Fiddlers Green College: Looking for Equitable Workforce Pathways in Silicon Valley. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/tg593xx0974.
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