Skill Development

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• Stacking Educational Credentials in Ohio: Pathways Through Postsecondary Education in Health Care, Manufacturing and Engineering Technology, and Information Technology

  Lindsay Daugherty, Jenna W. Kramer, Drew M. Anderson, Robert Bozick

  RAND researchers examine students who earned postsecondary certificates in Ohio and went on to earn additional educational credentials. The researchers describe which types of credentials were earned and how students progressed through institutions.

• Supporting Middle-Skills STEM Workforce Development: Analysis of Workplace Skills in Demand and Education Institutions' Curricular Offerings in the Oil and Gas Sector

  Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Christopher Joseph Doss, Julia H. Kaufman, Robert Bozick

  In this report, researchers examine the alignment of college STEM education with the needs of employers in the tri-state region of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, as well as STEM areas in which college students need more support.

• Preparing New York City High School Students for the Workforce: Evaluation of the Scholars at Work Program

  Robert Bozick, Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Serafina Lanna, Monica Mean

  This report evaluates the Scholars at Work program, which connects students in Career and Technical Education courses at New York City high schools with local employers to improve the career chances of the students and meet the needs of employers.

• What Happens When You Combine High School and College? The Impact of the Early College Model on Postsecondary Performance and Completion

  Julie Edmunds, Fatih Unlu, Jane Furey, Elizabeth J. Glennie, Nina Arshavsky

  What happens when you combine high school and college? The impact of the early college model on postsecondary performance and completion.

• The Appalachia Partnership Initiative's Investments in Education, Workforce Development, and Catalyzing the Community: Reflections from 2014 Through 2019

  Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Nupur Nanda, Shelly Culbertson, Harold D. Green, Kristin J. Leuschner

  RAND researchers trace the impact of the Appalachia Partnership Initiative investments on science, technology, engineering, and math education for grades K-12 and energy and advanced manufacturing workforce development from 2014 through 2019.

• A One-Stop Approach to Supporting the Nonacademic Needs of Community College Students: An Evaluation of Single Stop's Impact in North Carolina

  Lindsay Daugherty, Tiffany Berglund

  This report examines the impact of using Single Stop (a program that connects college students to governmental, community, and institutional resources) on postsecondary outcomes for students at four community colleges in North Carolina.

• Energy-Sector Workforce Development in West Virginia: Aligning Community College Education and Training with Needed Skills

  Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Sean Robson, Andrea Phillips, Gerald P. Hunter, David S. Ortiz

  In 2013, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) asked RAND to work closely with the Community and Technical College System of West Virginia on a collaborative strategy for preparing the local talent pool for the energy-sector workforce.

• Effectiveness of Screened, Demand-Driven Job Training Programs for Disadvantaged Workers: An Evaluation of the New Orleans Career Pathway Training

  Matthew D. Baird, John Engberg, Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Thomas Goughnour, Italo A. Gutierrez, Rita T. Karam

  The authors of this report examine the implementation and effectiveness of a New Orleans job training program that helped lower-skilled, unemployed, and underemployed individuals train for and find skilled jobs in particular industries.

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• Improving Pre-Engineering and Computer Science Education Through Micro-Credentialing

  Louisiana STEM micro-credential project is a partnership between the Louisiana Department of Education, Louisiana State University (LSU), BloomBoard Inc., and the RAND Corporation to develop and study a set of STEM micro-credentials. The micro-credentials are aligned to the content of the courses taught in the pathways and are intended to help teachers apply their STEM training to the classes they teach. The goal of the micro-credentials is to provide job-embedded professional development that will improve teacher instruction and student learning.

• Mapping Workforce Certificate and Degree Pathways in Ohio: Are Postsecondary Training Opportunities Setting Students Up for Success?

  Project partnered with the Ohio Department of Higher Education aims to develop a clear understanding of the progression of students through Ohio’s workforce certificate and degree pathways and transitions into (and out of) the workforce; and to engage with policymakers and practitioners across Ohio to inform policy and practice.

• An Analysis of Education and Training Programs in Advanced Manufacturing Using Robotics

  On behalf of the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), RAND conducted a review and analysis of the extant literature on the extent and economic impacts of advanced manufacturing nationally.

• Mapping Workforce Certificate and Degree Pathways in Ohio: Are We Effectively Providing Postsecondary Training Opportunities to Support Employment Among Adult Learners?

  An exploratory, descriptive one-year study of student progress through Ohio's workforce certificate and degree pathways using the state's longitudinal higher education and employment data.

• The Evaluation of Career and College Promise: A Partnership between the North Carolina Community College System, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and SERVE Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  RAND is evaluating the implementation and impact of Career and College Promise (CCP), a statewide policy that focused North Carolina’s dual enrollment program through pathways. The goal is to maximize state resources by ensuring that students have a better chance of success when taking college courses and to help ensure that the college courses they take in high school are aligned to careers or can move them further toward their education.

• Scholars at Work Program Evaluation

  An evaluation of the implementation, effectiveness, and impact of the Scholars at Work program (SaW) for the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity, in partnership with the NYC Department of Small Business Services and the NYC Department of Education. SaW provides Career and Technical Education to high school students studying technical skills in critical economic sectors with opportunities to apply these skills in authentic industry settings.

• The Appalachia Partnership Initiative

  The project is a five-year effort to improve access to and quality of STEM K-12 education and workforce development programs in advanced manufacturing and the energy sector. The initiative is funded by Chevron Corporation, and the RAND Corporation is providing objective analysis for its programs.

• Preparing Local Talent for Jobs in the Sub-baccalaureate STEM Economy: A Study of the Marcellus ShaleNET Program and the Energy Sector

  RAND is conducting a multi-method study of the ShaleNET Program, a partnership between energy employers and colleges in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West-Virginia. The program provides sub-baccalaureate training programs for semi-skilled STEM jobs in the energy sector.