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State career and technical education (CTE) directors don’t have enough reliable data to make meaningful programmatic and policy decisions, according to a report from Advance CTE.
About half (49 percent) of state CTE directors have enough confidence in their data systems to give them the information they need for high-stakes decision-making about secondary and postsecondary CTE, the report says. Ninety percent of state directors, however, believe improving state CTE data systems is a top priority, says Advance CTE, a nonprofit that represents state leaders responsible for secondary, postsecondary and adult CTE programs.
Data systems not aligned
In major findings from the study:
- States often use CTE and career readiness data for low-stakes decisions, such as informing technical assistance, but are less likely to use data to influence funding and decisions to transform or phase out CTE programs.
- CTE data systems are not sufficiently aligned across the secondary, postsecondary and workforce sectors. Only 28 percent of state directors say their CTE data system is “mostly” or “fully” aligned with postsecondary data systems, and just 18 percent say their CTE data system is aligned with workforce data systems.
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