Avenues for articulation: coordinating secondary and postsecondary programs

This guidebook reveals critical elements of successful secondary-postsecondary occupational articulation efforts currently in place. It also reviews the kinds of problems encountered by these programs and provides some potential solutions. Finally, it examines some related kinds of arrangements that may help pave the way towards workable secondary-postsecondary curriculum coordination. Project staff investigated 18 programs already underway and the investigation revealed two major approaches to secondary-postsecondary occupational articulation training efforts: the time-shortened model and the advanced skills model. Time-shortened programs are the most common and take many forms. Advanced skills programs also eliminate duplication of training across the secondary-postsecondary levels, but their main purpose is to streamline occupational training for grades 11-14 in order to incorporate into the curriculum more advanced training than a traditional postsecondary occupational program would allow. The intention is to graduate students at a master technical level, mainly for industries and businesses adopting high technology.

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