Quantifying the economic impact of career guidance in secondary education
PhD Thesis
Authors | Percy, C. |
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Type | PhD Thesis |
Qualification name | PhD by Published Works |
Abstract | Career guidance in secondary education has the potential to play a role in several related areas of government policy, including: youth unemployment prevention or re-engagement; education course choices, transitions, and motivation; skill shortages, regional economic development, and labour mobility; lifelong learning, mental health, and wellbeing. (ii) Monetising impact: applying a pragmatic ROI estimation framework to personal guidance conversations for students in English secondary education. The methodology, well-suited to interventions with few large-scale evaluations, was then re-applied and extended in a study for Careers Wales which addressed school-age and adult career guidance, the latter selected for a Cedefop collection which sets out a formalisation of this “linked ROI” methodology. (iii) Interpreting impact: exploring particular limitations and nuances of this evidence and the ROI method as applied to date, such that results might be appropriately used by policymakers, sector leaders, and the research community. A synthesis view of these contributions identifies a future opportunity to adopt a stronger systems perspective. Such an approach would address key limitations in the corpus: the limited statistical accounting for causality and displacement and the limited consideration of systemic factors, specific mechanisms, and innovative, future-focused approaches to guidance. |
Keywords | Career guidance; Secondary education; Impact analysis; Cost-benefit analysis |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | College of Arts, Humanities and Education, University of Derby |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.48773/9x456 |
File | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Unpublished |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Feb 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9x456/quantifying-the-economic-impact-of-career-guidance-in-secondary-education
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