UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



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% BULLETIN No. 385 



Contribution from the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRUE, Director 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



July 25, 1916 



SCHOOL CREDIT FOR HOME PRACTICE IN AGRI- 



CULTURE/ 



By F. E. Heald, 

 Specialist in Agricultural Education, States Relations Service. 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 1 



Methods for the teacher's use 2 



School administration basis of credit 13 



Farm management basis of school credit 17 



Page. 

 Summary 20 



Supplementary tables of labor requirements. 11 

 Selected club records 26 



INTRODUCTION. 



A new problem has arisen in the administration of rural schools 

 due to the advent of homo projects in agriculture and other subjects 

 in which the home becomes the laboratory of the school. To the 

 teacher falls the task of giving a rank for such home work and ap- 

 plying that rank with proper weight to the general scholarship aver- 

 age of the individual. 



To the superintendent of schools and other oflB.cials falls the duty 

 of determining how much credit shall be allowed; whether there 

 shall be prescribed or optional home work; what shall be the ratio 

 between recitation hours and hours of jS.eld work; also the ratio of 

 "boy hours" of labor to "man hours." From farm-management 

 studies acceptable records of labor requirements are to be obtained 

 and these are to be translated into terms of usual school rank and 

 credit. No form of school credit or rank for home work is sure to 

 arouse permanent interest in such work unless related to the credit 

 system used for other school subjects. 



This bidletin is intended to assist the rural teacher in her part of 

 this problem and to discuss the basis of such credit for the benefit 



1 Prepared imder the direction of C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist ia Agricultural Education. 



Note. — This bulletin is intended to assist superintendents and teachers of rural schools who desire 

 to use home practice in agriculture as an educational feature, giving proper rank and credit on the school 

 records. 



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