CREDIT FOR HOME PRACTICE IN AGRICULTURE. 3 
be apportioned to the recitation work and the home work separately. 
The application of a rank then becomes a simple matter, supposing 
that each home project has been approved at the outset as satis- 
fying the time demands. The teacher will then rank each project, 
with such advice from experts as may be needed, in view of the 
evidence available and the reports rendered. This rank is averaged 
with other school ranks in accordance with the local system of per. 
centages or other forms. 
To make this concrete, suppose arithmetic recitations with extra 
study or preparation periods occur five days in a week and are 
granted five credits or points in the general average of the term or 
year. Then agriculture with prepared recitations five times each 
week would receive five credits. If instead of five recitations it is 
decided to have three each week and require home practice equiva- 
lent to the other two, then home practice would count two-fifths in 
making up the rank in agriculture. If, however, the practical work 
is to be rated as though it were a separate academic subject, the 
authorities would decide as to whether it should be the equivalent 
of a five-hour course or less. 
Whenever this relative weight is fixed, each project should receive 
its rank in the same way recitation work is ranked and the average 
will be determined as is customary. This makes real school 
credit. To illustrate this: In the case where the project is to count 
as two-fifths of the agriculture, suppose the recitation course is ranked 
at 85 and the project 90 on the scale of 100. 
Rank. Hours. 
85X3=255 Recitation total. 
90 2=180 Project total. 
5)435 
Total rank for agriculture= 87 on basis of 5 credits. 
This rank of 87 per cent for agriculture would be averaged as a 
five-hour credit with other school branches in obtaining the general 
average rank. In a case where the two periods of practical work 
are in addition to the five periods of recitation, the total will be 
seven and the method of averaging will be as in the first case. 
It may be the teacher’s duty to approve the project and to decide 
as to how much weight it may have or as to how large a project it - 
must be to equal the requirement for practical work. The school 
authorities having decided on the ratio as before referred to, it is 
necessary also to have a ruling as to how many hours of practical 
work shall equal one prepared recitation. This is usually set for not 
less than two hours of practical or laboratory work to one recitation 
period. : 
Under such circumstances two days of agricultural practice per 
week would call for not less than 4 hours of home work which, in a 
