Selected published research

What Kāhui Ako Taught Us: Evidence to Inform the Future Karen Vaughan. Post-Primary Teachers Association. 2026.

Standards-Based Assessment and the Emergence of Skill Standards Karen Vaughan & Andrew Kear. ConCOVE. 2024.

A Guide to Developing Skill Standards-Based Qualifications Karen Vaughan & Andrew Kear. ConCOVE. 2024.

A Guide to Programme Development with Skill Standards Karen Vaughan & Andrew Kear. ConCOVE. 2024.

A Guide to Assessment Approaches and Moderation for Consistency with Skill Standards Karen Vaughan & Andrew Kear. ConCOVE. 2024.

The Role of Industry Stakeholders in the Development of Skill Standards Karen Vaughan & Andrew Kear. ConCOVE. 2024.

Subject Choice for the Future of Work Rosemary Hipkins & Karen Vaughan. Productivity Commission. 2019.

Pathways, labour market experiences, and learning at work and beyond at age 26. A report from the Competent Learners project Cathy Wylie & Karen Vaughan. NZCER Press. 2019.

Work-integrated learning gone full circle: How prior work placement experiences influenced workplace supervisors Andrew Martin, Malcolm Rees, Jenny Fleming, Karsten Zegwaard & Karen Vaughan. International Journal of Work-integrated Learning, 20:3, 229-242. 2019.

Even Better Than the Real Thing: Practice-Based Learning in New Zealand Karen Vaughan. In S. Choy et al. (eds.), Integration of Vocational Education and Training Experiences: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, pp. 189-206. The Netherlands: Springer. 2018.

Engineering e2e (education to employment): an evaluation Karen Vaughan. Tertiary Education Commission. 2018.

The role of employers in the cultivation of soft skills and dispositions Karen Vaughan. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 69:4, 540-557. 2017.

Training for a reflective workforce: Transfer of learning for support worker apprentices Karen Vaughan & Jo MacDonald. Careerforce. 2017.

Vocational Thresholds: Developing expertise without certainty in general practice medicine Karen Vaughan. Journal of Primary Health Care, 8:1, 99-105. 2016.

Acts of learning worth learning from Karen Vaughan. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 2(Oct), 41-47. 2016.

Knowing Practice: Vocational Thresholds for GPs, Carpenters, and Engineering Technicians Karen Vaughan, Linda Bonne & Jan Eyre. Ako Aotearoa: The National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence and NZCER Press. 2015.

Mate, you should know this! Re-negotiating practice after a critical incident in the assessment of on-job learning Karen Vaughan, Andrew Kear & Heath MacKenzie. Vocations and Learning: Studies in Professional and Vocational Education, 7:3, 331-344. 2014.

Transforming Industry-Led Assessment of On-Job Learning in the Building and Construction Industries Karen Vaughan, Ben Gardiner & Jan Eyre. Ako Aotearoa Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence. 2012.

Taking Charge of Your Apprenticeship Andrew Kear, Karen Vaughan & Ben Gardiner. Ako Aotearoa and BCITO. 2012.

Learning to Fly: Career Management Competencies in the School Subject Classroom Karen Vaughan & Lorraine Spiller. AERU, Lincoln University. 2012.

The Integration of Work and Learning in New Zealand Karen Vaughan. NZCER Press. 2012.

Science teachers as careers educators: a new role Karen Vaughan. New Zealand Science Teacher, 131:34-36. 2012.

The potential of career management competencies for renewed focus and direction in career education Karen Vaughan. New Zealand Annual Review of Education, 20:2010, 24-51. 2011.

Education-Employment Linkages and English Teachers Karen Vaughan & Jane Higgins. English Aotearoa, 75(October), 27-30. 2011.

Successful Workplace Learning: How Learning Happens at Work Karen Vaughan, Paul O'Neil & Marie Cameron. Industry Training Federation. 2011.

Career Education Networks and Communities of Practice. School-Communities in Education Employment Linkages Karen Vaughan & Paul O'Neil. AERU: Lincoln University. 2010.

A Guide to Good Practice in Industry Training Organisation Structures and Systems for On-Job Assessment Karen Vaughan & Marie Cameron. Ako Aotearoa Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence. 2010.

Learning-Workers: Young New Zealanders and Early Career Development Karen Vaughan. Vocations and Learning: Studies in Professional and Vocational Education, 3:2, 157-178. 2010.

A Matter of Perspective: Mapping Education Employment Linkages in Aotearoa New Zealand Karen Vaughan, Hazel Phillips, Paul Dalziel & Jane Higgins. AERU, Lincoln University. 2009.

Student Perspectives on Leaving School, Pathways and Careers. Competent Learners at 16 Karen Vaughan. Ministry of Education. 2008.

Trading Choices: Young people's career decisions and gender segregation in the trades Josie Roberts, Ben Gardiner, Jane Gilbert & Karen Vaughan. Ministry of Women's Affairs. 2008.

Careers Education in New Zealand Schools Karen Vaughan & Ben Gardiner. Ministry of Education. 2007.

Developing a "productive" account of young people's transition perspectives Karen Vaughan & Josie Roberts. Journal of Education and Work, 20:3, 91-106. 2007.

Young people producing careers and identities: The longitudinal Pathways and Prospects project Karen Vaughan, Josie Roberts & Ben Gardiner. NZCER Press. 2006.

The pathways framework meets consumer culture: Young people, careers, and commitment Karen Vaughan. Journal of Youth Studies, 8:2, 173-186. 2005.

Pathways, junctions, and pitstops: Transition policy in New Zealand Karen Vaughan & Sally Boyd. In N. Bagnall (Ed.) Youth Transition in a Globalised Marketplace, pp. 99-118. New York: Nova Science. 2005.

Beyond the Age of Aquarius. Reframing Alternative Education Karen Vaughan. NZCER Press. 2004.

A tale of two hyphens: Working the policy-research and researcher-researched hyphens in a longitudinal youth transition project Karen Vaughan. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 11:3, 215-227. 2008.

Daring to be different: The rise and fall of Auckland Metropolitan College Karen Vaughan. New Zealand Annual Review of Education, 11, 85-103. 2001.

Shaping our futures: Meeting secondary students' learning needs in a time of evolving qualifications. Final report of the Learning Curves project Rosemary Hipkins & Karen Vaughan, with Frances Beals, Helen Ferral and Ben Gardiner. New Zealand Council for Educational Research. 2005.

A constellation of prospects: A review of the secondary-tertiary alignment resource (STAR) Karen Vaughan & Nick Kenneally. Ministry of Education. 2003.