The crosswalk below shows how the categories used to classify career education at the postsecondary level can be linked to the categories used to classify CTE at the secondary (high school) level. The secondary school taxonomy is explained further in Bradby and Hudson (2007).
(22 KB)| Exhibit 2. Crosswalk between postsecondary taxonomy for career education and Secondary School Taxonomy for CTE | ||||
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| Postsecondary Career Education Categories | Secondary School Taxonomy CTE Categories | |||
| Family and Consumer Sciences Education | ||||
| General Labor Market Preparation | ||||
| Occupational Education | ||||
| Agriculture and Natural Resources |  | Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Business Management | |  | Business Management Business Finance | |
| Business Support | | Business Support | ||
| Communications and Design | | Communications and Design | ||
| Computer and Information Sciences | | Computer and Information Sciences | ||
| Consumer Services | | Consumer Services Culinary Arts | ||
| Education | | Education | ||
| Engineering, Architecture and Science Technologies | | | Engineering Technologies1 Architecture | |
| Health Sciences | | Health Sciences | ||
| Marketing | | Marketing | ||
| Protective Services | | Protective Services | ||
| Public, Legal, and Social Services | | | Library Science Public Administration Legal services | |
| Manufacturing, Construction, Repair, and Transportation | | | Manufacturing Construction Repair Transportation | |
| 1 In the Secondary School Taxonomy, engineering courses are included in the academic curriculum rather than the CTE curriculum. Source: Bradby and Hudson (2007). |
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