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Teachers and administrators at postsecondary vocational institutions play a
pivotal role as "change agents" in successfully promoting and implementing
reforms. Building on previous NCRVE work, this study will gather new data via
a nationally representative survey of postsecondary vocational and academic
teachers and case studies of several community colleges in different stages of
implementing vocational education reforms. Practitioner input will help guide
this research design. The focus will be on faculty awareness of reforms aimed
at changing education and training for work, their views on those changes, and
their overall readiness to implement reform. The project contains specific
development activities designed to assist community college practitioners in
promoting reform.
A technical report will detail the project's methodology including survey
instruments. It will present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey
and case study data. Project conclusions and recommendations for development
activities will be made.
A policy brief will summarize the project's findings, oriented towards
postsecondary instructors and designed to assist in the effective
implementation of reform through concrete suggestions of how to achieve an
informed, supportive, and equipped faculty.
Based on the technical report, one or two articles will be submitted to
academic journals.
The three deliverables will be widely distributed to an audience including appropriate national groups such as AACC, the League for Innovation in Community Colleges, AVA, state-level officials, and possibly to community colleges themselves. In addition, we will present our findings at professional meetings such as that of AERA.
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