This resource provides an summary of the methodology used to develop Advance CTE’s State of Career Technical Education: Credentials of Value report.
Built on a 2024 national scan, a 50-state survey, and interviews with state leaders, Advance CTE’s State of Career Technical Education: Credentials of Value report takes a deep dive into the ongoing, iterative cycle of state credentialing systems: how credentials are selected, approved, re-evaluated, and aligned to real value.
This document is an excerpt from the full report; page numbers reflect the full document.
This report includes:
- A national report consisting of four briefs across the following topics: Identifying and Approving Credentials of Value; Revalidating Previously Approved Credentials; Incentivizing Credentials of Value; Collecting Data for Informed Credential Decisions
- A Tableau dashboard to explore and compare state approaches to credentialing with access to state responses to a national survey and credential attainment data of CTE concentrators by year, state, and subgroup
- A PowerBI dashboard of commonly requested credentials by employers (using real-time labor market information from 2024) organized by Career Cluster
This serves as Advance CTE’s tenth State of Career Technical Education (CTE) report, which provides a timely deep dive into key components of CTE policy and practice informed by state CTE leaders. This report and supplemental resources are generously supported by the Joyce Foundation and Lumina Foundation.
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