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Career oriented and university bound: higher education outcomes of IB Career-related Programme graduates in the US
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July 2018

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Journal of Vocational Education and Training

Lori C. Mack

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Emma Burd

The Career-related Programme (CP) is an innovative education programme by the International Baccalaureate (IB). Designed to promote college and career readiness equally in the last two years of high school, the CP combines rigorous university preparatory coursework with targeted career-related studies. This study examines the patterns of higher education enrolment, destination and persistence of all CP graduates from high schools in the US between 2013 and 2015. The results indicate that CP graduates enrol in higher education at higher rates than do all high school graduates nationally and career and technical education concentrators specifically: 81% versus 68% versus 70%, respectively. They persist for 1 year at higher rates than do all high school graduates: 89% versus 72%, respectively. Results of logistic regression show that the number of IB exams and the completion of the CP certificate are significant predictors of postsecondary enrolment and that higher mean IB exam scores predict higher odds of a student attending a 4-year institution over a 2-year institution. The results suggest that students who engage in career and technical education alongside rigorous university preparatory coursework within the CP are well-prepared to succeed in higher education.

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... Gürkan (2021) experimented in Turkey with transdisciplinary curriculum design with pre-service teachers emulating the collaborative curriculum programming work that takes place in IB schools. In the last five years, there have been several research studies analysing the implementation of IB in specific countries (Kidson et al, 2018;Leek, 2020;Suresh & Mahajan, 2021), the higher education trajectory of students who have studied in IB schools (Mack et al, 2019), or the role of teachers who teach in IB schools (Bunnell et al, 2020;Walton et al, 2016). The only systematic review conducted in this area, although not specifically on PYP but on IB in general, is the one conducted by Ben-Jaafar et al (2023) in which 295 papers published from 1967 to 2018 were analysed, with an emphasis on IB brand development, IB student academic success and IB international identity. ...

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International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme: a systematic review
Career oriented and university bound: higher education outcomes of IB Career-related Programme graduates in the US
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  • July 2018

Journal of Vocational Education and Training