To determine if any significant differences existed between secondary school students who had been on the staff of a school newspaper or yearbook and those students who had no publication experience, a study examined 19,249 college students who had completed their college freshman year in 1984 and who had taken the ACT Assessment as high school students during the 1982-1983 testing period. The following data were also obtained: Interest Inventory and Student Profile Section scores; final grades in the last high school courses in English, social studies, mathematics, and science; college freshman cumulative grade point averages; and first college English course grades. Findings showed that in 10 of 12 statistical comparisons, those students who had completed at least one year of college and who had been on the staff of a high school newspaper or yearbook earned significantly higher scores than their counterparts who were not involved in publications. The 10 significantly higher comparisons were found in cumulative college freshman grade point average; first collegiate English course; ACT Composite score; ACT English score; ACT Social Studies score; and mean score and final score of four high school courses in English, social studies, mathematics, and natural science. In only one of 12 comparisons--the ACT Mathematics score--did the group with high school publications experience show a significant negative difference. (Author/HOD)
Authors
- Assessments and Surveys
- ACT Assessment
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- ['Reports - Research', 'Speeches/Meeting Papers']
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- ED 269 787 1
- TITLE PUB TYPE 1
- Comparisons of College Grades ACT Scores and High 1
- PUB DATE 1
- Analysis Educational Experience Extracurricular 1
- Activit srGrades Scholastic Higher Education 1
- Interest 1
- Jack Dvorak 2
- The University of Oklahoma. Normyn OK. 2
- August 1986 2
- Findings indicate that in 10 of 12 statistical comparisons those 3
- Those 10 significantly higher comparisons are found if cumulative 3
- While conclusions involving causal relationships have been avoided it 3
- Method 7
- Those in the total pool of positive responses numbered 4.798-24.93 8
- Mathematics. Social Studies. and Natural Science. 8
- Within the Student Profile Section of the Assessment of high 8
- Results 8
- TABLE 1 9
- Those Who 9
- Cumulative 9
- Publications 9
- Grade Point s.d.0.72 Average 9
- First English 9
- TABLE 10
- Composite 10
- Non-Publications 10
- X22.36 s.d.7.11 10
- In the four subtests of the ACT Assessment Mole 2. students 10
- 22.00--70th percentile 11
- Assessment 11
- 3.20 .114451 for those without newspaper or yearbook experience 11
- TABLE 3 12
- Cumulative n4.798 12
- English 12
- Social Studies 12
- Mathematics i3.10 n14029 s.d.0.88 12
- The final high school natural science -nean grade for the group 13
- TABLE 4 16
- Size of community in which you live 16
- Subgroup 16
- Non-publ. 16
- 54.71 perceat of the publications students were satisfieJ lith 17
- Percent 18
- 67.24 18
- 61.18 18
- Item 19
- Subgroup 19
- 4.539 19
- 4.532 19
- Luaents took them. 20
- 47 percent of 20
- NaLional Cummil-mion on txcelience in Education Washington. D.C. U.S. 22
- Jucation. April 1983 p. 18. 22
- PP. 8-9. 22
- NASSP August 1981 Rod Vahl. 22
- Lynn Shenkman Excellence in Journalism Florida 22
- Report pp. 5-8. 23
- Ibid.. p. 18 23