Open AccessEfficacy of vocational education: a longitudinal analysis
Author(s) -
Ronaldo de Albuquerque e Arraes,
Francisca Zilânia Mariano
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
economia aplicada/economia aplicada
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1980-5330
pISSN - 1413-8050
DOI - 10.11606/1980-5330/ea156691
Subject(s) - vocational education , matching (statistics) , longitudinal study , mathematics education , vocational school , psychology , state (computer science) , pedagogy , medical education , computer science , medicine , mathematics , statistics , algorithm
The impact of vocational schools on student’s performance is controversial in the world literature. Thus, this paper contributes to such debate by evaluating the performance of Vocational Education State School (VESS) students on secondary education exams in a case study for the state of Ceará (Brazil). This is done through matching techniques applied to a unique longitudinal database. Among the results, it is highlighted that the mean effect of the VESS treatment is positive and significant in all knowledge areas of the exams, especially in Writing, for which the effect of VESSs on student performance exceeded that of students from regular schools by 40%.