ABSTRACT This paper identifies a nascent trend in several countries regarding increased collection, public availability and use of destination data for graduates of secondary education, with policy ambitions to support pupil-level decision-making and drive provider-level accountability. This trend mirrors the previous development of such data for higher education graduates and underpins a policy direction of data visibility and data engineering to support labour market objectives, via an assumed approach to change that privileges financial factors in career decision-making. Reforms in England are identified as an example of extreme practice, illustrating the practical potential of such data as well as potential pitfalls. Building on the pre-existing critique, the authors highlight three biases particularly prevalent in the new data: bias for continued education, bias for more stable, traditional forms of employment that disadvantages particular sectors, and bias for a provider-centric view of outcomes. Mitigations via an enhanced role for adolescent career counselling and improved data are discussed.

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路的尽头？批判中学教育过渡数据的新生趋势

摘要本文确定了一些国家在中学教育毕业生的收集，公众获取和使用目的地数据的增加方面的新兴趋势，其政策目标是支持学生一级的决策并推动提供者一级的问责制。这种趋势反映了以前为高等教育毕业生开发的此类数据，并通过一种假定的方法来改变职业决策中的财务因素，从而为支持劳动力市场目标奠定了数据可见性和数据工程的政策方向。英格兰的改革被认为是极端实践的一个例子，说明了此类数据的实际潜力以及潜在的陷阱。在先前的批评基础上，作者强调了在新数据中特别普遍的三种偏见：对继续教育的偏见，对特定部门不利的更稳定，传统的就业形式的偏见，以及对提供者为中心的对结果的偏见。讨论了通过提高青少年职业咨询的作用和改善数据来减轻风险。