California Community Colleges - Career Technical Education:

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Tracking Non-traditional Gender Employment and
Instructional Programs in California

• Chuck Wiseley
• Data Quality Institute
• Washington, DC

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Issues in Nontraditional Gender Measures

• 4P1 Participation
• Participants vs. Concentrators
• 4P2 Completions
• Options proposed
• Crosswalks Occupations to Instruction

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4P1 Nontraditional Participation

• California Current
• NT Participants (Enrolled in any NT CTE course)
• California Past 2000-2002
• NT Concentrators (In NT Programs)
• Proposed In Programs leading to NT Occ
• NT Participants (Enrolled in any NT CTE course)
• NT Concentrators (Threshold)
• Issues

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4P1 Issues

• NT Participants
• Includes students in introductory courses
• in 2004-05
• 38 of students taking an intro CTE course took
  2
• 17 took 2 in different CIPs
• 81 of those in an intro course in fall 04 took
  only intro courses in 04-05
• California Past 2000-2002
• NT Concentrators (2001)
• 23.85 of Concentrators (47,926) in NT Programs
• NT Participants (2002)
• 38.27 of Participants (826,500) in NT Programs
• NT Completers (2002)
• 24.37 of Completers (34,857) in NT Programs

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CCC Recommendation

• Vote to change the current 4P1 to Concentrators

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4P2 Nontraditional Completion

• Current
• NT Completers / All Completers in NT Programs
• Is Not one of the options on ballot
• Proposed
• NT Completers / NT Concentrators or NT
  Participants
• NT Concentrators / NT Participants
• NT Completers / NT Graduates

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Current 4P2

• Relationship
• NT gender to Traditional gender (TG) Completers
  in NT Programs
• Comparison group TG is students in the same
  classes
• Used to evaluate internal barriers
• Compare 4P1 rate with 4P2 rate (losing NT faster
  than TG)
• 40 of NT completed (20/50) 53 of TG (80/150)
• Options 1, 2, 4 are versions of the NT
  calculation (40)

NT TG
4P1 25 50 200
4P2 20 20 100
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Proposed 4P2

• Relationship (in NT Programs)
• NT Completers to
• Nontraditional gender Participants (option 1)
• NT Concentrators (option 2)
• NT Participants to Concentrators (option 3)
• NT Graduates to NT Concentrators (option 4)
• Used to evaluate internal barriers
• Standalone rate (losing NT students at each step
  in process)
• 40 of NT completed (20/50) Options 1, 2, 4
  versions 2P1 for NT
• Comparison groups
• NT students within the two measures (only if
  aligned as in current measure)
• Participant Concentrator Completer
• Completers in All Programs
• Can NOT compare to Traditional Gender students in
  NT Programs

4P1 25 50 200
4P2 40 20 50
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Proposed 4P2 How evaluation looks

• California 2005 actual (PS) From CAR
• 75.34 NT Completers to NT Concentrators (Options
  2 4 versions 2P1 for NT)
• This is what we would see in proposed options
• 73.42 All Completers (2P1 All)
• Conclusion - doing better than average completion
• 36.71 NT Participation (4P1 - participants)
• What we would NOT see
• 23.52 NT Completions (current 4P2)
• Conclusion NT participants doing worse than TG
  in NT programs
• Conversion rates from Participant to Completer
• 02.60 NT Completers to NT Participants (4P2,N /
  4P1,N)
• 04.91 TG Completers to TG Participants (4P2,D-N
  / 4P1,D-N D-Ndenom - numer)
• We Should Conclude NT students are moving from
  participant to completer at about half the rate
  of TG in NT Programs

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CCC Recommendation

• Remembering the ease of comparison of
• 38 participants to 23 concentrators to 24
  completion
• (from the 2002 data)
• Add the current 4P2 as an option
• Vote for it

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Crosswalks Past Practice Future Prospects

• Enrollments
• Employment
• Crosswalks
• Employment
• Local, Statewide, National
• Instructional Program Areas (CIP)
• Instructional Programs
• Participants / Concentrators
• Completion
• Placement

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Employment

• National Crosswalk from mid 1990s
• Four digit CIP
• California Crosswalk (Six digit)
• Local Conditions
• Instructional Program Assignment
• Non-relevant OES and SOC relationships
• Contradictory gender balance patterns
• One of many occupations has a gender imbalance

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Crosswalk

• Occupation
• Gender
• Number employed
• Instructional Program Leading to Employment
• Instructional Program Area (six digit CIP)

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Problems to resolve

• Local vs. State vs. National
• Multiple occupations within a program
• Civil Construction Management Technician
• CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS (male dominated)
• COST ESTIMATORS (female dominated)
• Multiple Programs within Program Area
• Culinary Program Area
• Chef (Nontraditional for females)
• Baking Chefs (nontraditional for Males)

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How it looks 1990 Census decisions

• Civil Construction Management Technician
• Do we train for both occupations?
• Is the program area gender balanced?

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NAPE to the Rescue 2006

• National Crosswalk at Six digit CIP
• http//www.napequity.org/nape_publications.htm
• 2004 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Household
  Data Annual Averages
• Four Contradictory gender patterns
• Non-relevant OES and SOC relationships?
• Decision Process?

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How it looks 2006 decisions

• Agricultural/Farm Supplies Retailing
  Wholesaling (1st group)
• Do we train for both occupations?
• Selling Skills Sales Operations

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Sample table from 1990 census
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Instructional Programs

• Multiple Programs within Program Area
• Participants / Concentrators
• Completion
• Relationships
• Participants to Concentrators
• Concentrators to Completers
• Placement