Title page
Contents
Executive Summary 4
Introduction 8
Background 8
The Need for a New Taxonomy 9
Development of the SSCT 14
Differences Between the SSCT and the SCED Taxonomy 15
Comparison of Coursetaking Estimates 23
Conclusion 24
References 26
Appendix A. The Secondary School Course Taxonomy, Using SCED 2.0 28
Appendix B. The SSCT Compared to the SST 72
Appendix C. Standard Errors for Average Number of Credits in Table 1 75
Table 1. Comparison of average number of credits that public high school graduates earned in each subject field when using School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) version 2.0 25
Exhibits
Exhibit 1. Summary of NCES National High School Transcript Data Collections 10
Exhibit 2. Subject Fields in the 2007 Secondary School Taxonomy (SST) 11
Exhibit 3. School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) Subject-Field Taxonomy 12
Exhibit 4. Comparison of 2007 Secondary School Taxonomy (SST) and School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) Subject-Field Taxonomies 13
Exhibit 5. Crosswalk of subject fields included in the School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) 17
Exhibit 6. Overview of course movements across subject fields from the School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) Taxonomy to the Secondary School Course Taxonomy (SSCT) 19
Table C-1. Standard errors for Table 1: Comparison of average number of credits that public high school graduates earned in each subject field when using School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) version 2.0 taxonomy and when using the Secondary School Course Taxonomy (SSCT): 2013 75
Appendix Exhibits
Exhibit B-1. Comparison of Career and Technical Education (CTE) subjects in the Secondary School Taxonomy (SST) and Secondary School Course Taxonomy (SSCT) 74