Abstract
A university and a career technical education (CTE) center joined forces to offer dual credit courses. Two institutions worked together to create and implement five different dual credit courses in the areas of physics and mathematics. This paper presents two major findings. First, results of the student’s evaluations of their dual credit experience at a CTE center are presented and discussed. Sixty-four students in the program were telephone interviewed and two different groups of students participated in focus groups. Second, the development and implementation of the program is described. Emphasis is placed on relationships, course identification, mentoring, rigor, assessment, authenticity and providing a showcase for the work. This paper provides evidence that successful dual credit programs at CTE centers can be implemented with a university partner in a very short period of time and provides guidelines for those wishing to do the same.
Highlights
Dual credit, known as ―dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, post secondary enrollment and joint enrollment‖ can be defined as a course or program where high school students can earn both high school and postsecondary credits for the same course. Andrews (2004) points out that such opportunities range from earning a single course of college credit to earning up to two years of college work prior to high school graduation
High school students have several choices to earn college credit while still in high school. These choices range from correspondence courses, on-line college courses, post secondary enrollment option (PSEO), dual credit, and tech prep
Karp et al (2007) completed a large-scale investigation of whether dual credit programs were a useful strategy for encouraging postsecondary success including those in campus of the (CTE) programs. They analyzed two large-scale existing data bases for CTE students participating in dual credit programs in Florida and New York City. They found that CTE students who participated in dual credit were more likely to: graduate than those who did not, more likely to enroll in college, more likely to enroll in a four-year college, more likely to have a higher GPA, and more likely to progress faster in the post-secondary degree
Summary
Known as ―dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, post secondary enrollment and joint enrollment‖ can be defined as a course or program where high school students can earn both high school and postsecondary credits for the same course. Andrews (2004) points out that such opportunities range from earning a single course of college credit to earning up to two years of college work prior to high school graduation. High school students have several choices to earn college credit while still in high school These choices range from correspondence courses, on-line college courses, post secondary enrollment option (PSEO), dual credit, and tech prep. Correspondence and on-line courses are available to students that apply and are accepted to a college or university and are normally handled individually instead of through the high school. Dual credit and/or tech prep allow the high school student the opportunity to earn high school and college credit while remaining at the high school campus. The CTE center serves 27 school districts in five southwestern Ohio counties. They offer approximately 50 different career and technical programs
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