School - Work transition project (SWT)
university of alberta, edmonton, canada
Project Overview
Welcome to the School-Work Transition (SWT) Research Program website. This program includes three studies that tracked the school-work transitions of three different cohorts of Alberta youth. With the involvement of almost 5000 survey participants, and support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Alberta government, and the University of Alberta, the SWT Research Program has provided many insights into the education, career, and life paths of Alberta young people as they moved from school to work and into adulthood in a rapidly changing social, economic, and political environment.
Project 1 focuses on almost 1000 Edmonton teens who were surveyed the year they completed high school in 1985 and five more times, most recently in 1999. Project 2 examines the transition experiences of almost 600 participants who received University of Alberta degrees in 1985; they too were surveyed six times, from 1985 to 1999. Project 3, designed to compare the transition experiences of Generation X (the Class of 1985) and Generation Y (the Class of 1996), surveyed almost 2700 Alberta high school seniors in 1996 and again in 2003.
SWT+ 25 is our plan to resurvey the participants in Project 1, marking the 25th anniversary of their graduation from six Edmonton high schools: Harry Ainlay, Ross Sheppard, Victoria Composite, Jasper Place, Eastglen, and Queen Elizabeth.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN! IF YOU GRADUATED FROM ONE OF THESE HIGH SCHOOLS IN 1985 AND TOOK PART IN OUR SURVEY, PLEASE CONTACT DR. HARVEY KRAHN (harvey.krahn@ualberta.ca) TO JOIN THE 25-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SURVEY.
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