The Relationship Between Students’ Participation in an Indoor Agricultural Program and Their Eighth-Grade Standardized Test Scores

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Abstract

This study aimed to identify the relationships between middle school student’s participation in indoor agriculture and their academic achievement using quasi-experimental methods. Furthermore, analyses sought to better understand the moderating effects of students’ demographic characteristics and school-level variables on the relationship between middle school students’ participation in indoor agriculture and their academic achievement. We compared students enrolled in middle schools with an indoor agricultural program with a propensity-matched comparison group of students enrolled in the same school district without the program to understand its relationship to student achievement.

Authors

• Kimberly A. Kolasa, Northern Michigan University

• Frim Ampaw, Morgan State University