A study of veterans taking institutional on-the-farm training in vocational agriculture

Abstract

An objective questionnaire was used in making this study. The forms were carefully written and designed to assist the veteran in giving the true picture of his progress in addition to the number of veterans dropping the program. After receiving from the teacher of veterans the number of veterans in his department with at least two years of institutional on-the-farm training in vocational agriculture, enough forms were sent to the teacher in charge of the department to give each of these veterans a copy. These forms were mailed to 165 veterans in the state of Virginia. Returns were received from 108 veterans reporting on their progress, although several others came too late to be included in the study.

The results on the drop-out part of the questionnaire went to 139 vocational agriculture departments that reported 675 veterans dropping the training program.

The tabulation of the data was made at the home of the author on large master sheets which were prepared for this work. Classifications of the data were made to give the desired results of the progress and the number of veterans dropping the program as well as their reasons for dropping out of training.