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Does High School Training in Agriculture Affect Success in College?

University of Kentucky

Abstract

The first question we are trying to answer is this: Is there any difference in the grades made during their first semester in college by those who had agriculture in high school and those who had no agriculture? The figures for this work were taken from the records in the office of the dean. These figures included the intelligence test rating as shown by the test given at the time of entrance and the actual grades as given by the college instructors at the end of the first semester. The entering classes of September, 1927, and September, 1928, were selected for the study and were divided into two groups, on the basis of whether or not they had had agricultural training in a Smith-Hughes high school. After these two groups had been formed a study of their intelligence test records showed them to have identically the same percentile rank. We considered only the records of the first semester for two reasons: first, we wished to eliminate the possibility of having the records affected by the training of a previous college semester, and second, because in this semester half of the work was in agriculture and half in non-agricultural subjects, thus giving us a chance to compare success in two different lines of work.