肯塔基州研究：完成实习与合作教育的学生毕业率更高 低收入学生完成率近乎翻倍
肯塔基州高等教育委员会（CPE）11月13日在法兰克福发布全州首份基于工作的学习研究报告：完成学分制实习、合作教育或实习实训的学生，中途停学的比例更低、最终取得学历证书的比例更高。报告追踪了2010年秋季至2021年秋季进入肯塔基州公立大学与肯塔基社区技术学院系统（KCTCS）的32.7万多名新生。
数据显示，参与基于工作学习的学生每学期停学率明显更低：KCTCS为6%，未参与者为10%；公立大学为3%，未参与者为5%。通过相关课程的学生中，KCTCS有60%、公立大学有86%最终取得证书。对大一即参与的佩尔助学金获得者，完成率从24%升至49%；第一代大学生从25%升至51%，接近翻倍。委员会主席Aaron Thompson在周五的委员会会议上介绍了报告要点。
委员会强调，研究显示的是相关性而非因果证明，但这一规律在不同学科与多种统计方法下都成立。该报告是今年8月发布的《肯塔基州基于工作的学习政策与实践蓝图》的配套研究，CPE将于11月16日下午2时（东部时间）举行免费网络研讨会解读研究结果，由报告作者Chris Ledford、Miles Feroli与KCTCS的Natalie Gross主讲。肯塔基州的目标是到2030年让60%的劳动年龄成年人持有高等教育证书，目前这一比例为55.5%。
（来源：肯塔基州高等教育委员会）
Kentucky Study Links Internships and Co-ops to Higher College Completion Across 327,000 Students
The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) on November 13 released the state's first statewide study of work-based learning in Frankfort, finding that students who complete a credit-bearing internship, co-op or practicum are less likely to stop out and more likely to finish a credential. The report tracks more than 327,000 first-time students who entered Kentucky public universities or Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) schools from fall 2010 through fall 2021.
Participants stopped out at lower rates each term: 6 percent versus 10 percent for non-participants at KCTCS, and 3 percent versus 5 percent at public universities. Among students who passed a work-based learning course, 60 percent at KCTCS and 86 percent at public universities completed a credential. For Pell Grant recipients who participated as freshmen, completion roughly doubled from 24 to 49 percent, and for first-generation students from 25 to 51 percent. CPE President Aaron Thompson presented highlights at Friday's council meeting.
The council stressed that the study describes associations rather than proof of cause, though the pattern holds across fields of study and multiple methods. The report is a companion to CPE's Work-Based Learning in Kentucky: Policy and Practice Blueprint released in August 2026. CPE will host a free webinar on the findings on Monday, November 16, at 2 p.m. Eastern, led by report authors Chris Ledford and Miles Feroli of CPE and Natalie Gross of KCTCS. Kentucky's 60x30 goal calls for 60 percent of working-age adults to hold a postsecondary credential by 2030; attainment now stands at 55.5 percent.
(Source: Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education)
来源：肯塔基州高等教育委员会
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