Reasons given by Iowa women for attending homemaking classes for adults

Educators might find clues to help them interest more or different women in enrolling in homemaking classes for adults from the important reasons for attendance given by women attending classes. From 1,358 women in such classes in Iowa in 1949-51, this kind of information was obtained by asking them to answer a questionnaire during an adult class meeting. Each woman rated the relative importance of each of 43 possible reasons for her own attendance by checking “much,” “ some” or “none.” These responses were studied reason by reason in their relationship to such factors as education, age group, occupation of husband, number and ages of children in the family, subject of study in the classes and size of town in which classes were held. As a result, it is possible to tell whether certain reasons seemed more important to homemakers with certain characteristics than to those with other characteristics; for example, to those with less than eighth grade education than to those with college degrees.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/specialreports/1007/thumbnail.jp

Teacher supply and demand in home economics in Iowa, 1935-1941

Fifteen Iowa colleges and universities prepared 1,051 students to meet the state requirements for teaching home economics in the secondary schools between 1935 and 1941. The number prepared in 1940 was 74.7 percent greater than in 1935. Slightly over three-fourths (76.3 percent) gave some service to Iowa high schools. The percentages going into teaching in the state from the different institutions varied from 33 to 100. Of 271 not teaching in the secondary schools of Iowa immediately after c9mpleting their preparation, 100 taught in other states or at other school levels. Eighty-eight students taught outside Iowa the first year whereas 183 were residents of other states or countries during their time in college.</p

Reasons given by Iowa women for attending homemaking classes for adults

Educators might find clues to help them interest more or different women in enrolling in homemaking classes for adults from the important reasons for attendance given by women attending classes. From 1,358 women in such classes in Iowa in 1949-51, this kind of information was obtained by asking them to answer a questionnaire during an adult class meeting. Each woman rated the relative importance of each of 43 possible reasons for her own attendance by checking “much,” “ some” or “none.” These responses were studied reason by reason in their relationship to such factors as education, age group, occupation of husband, number and ages of children in the family, subject of study in the classes and size of town in which classes were held. As a result, it is possible to tell whether certain reasons seemed more important to homemakers with certain characteristics than to those with other characteristics; for example, to those with less than eighth grade education than to those with college degrees.</p

Agricultural Research Bulletins, Nos. 321-345

Volume 27, Bulletins 321-345. (321) Proper Size and Location of Corn Stabilization Stocks; (322) Some Farm Family Gardens Pay in Dollars; (323) Cost, Distribution and Utilization of Farm Machinery in Iowa; (324) Adjusting Crop Acreages for War Production to the Soil Resources of Iowa; (325) Bacteriology of Cheese: VII. Calcium and Phosphorus Contents of Various Cheeses, Including Relationship to Bacterial Action in the Manufacturing Procedures; (326) Nutritive Value of Corn Oil Meal and Feather Protein; (327) General Agriculture in the High Schools of Iowa; (328) Classification of the Organisms Important in Dairy Products: IV. Bacterium linens; (329) Statistical Investigations of Farm Sample Surveys Taken in Iowa, Florida and California; (330) Coordination of Wheat and Corn Price Controls; (331) Vegetative Development of Inbred and Hybrid Maize; (332) Soil-Inhabiting Fungi Attacking the Roots of Maize; (333) Design and Statistical Analysis of Some Confounded Factorial Experiments; (334) Testing the Quality of Seeds for Farm and Garden; (335) Teacher Supply and Demand in Home Economics in Iowa, 1935-1941; (336) Effect of Various Adjuvants to the Diet of Rats on the Changes in Body Fats Induced by Feeding Soybean Oil; (337) Materials-Balance Method for Determining Losses of Butterfat in the Creamery; (338) Epiphytology and Control of Sugar Beet Leaf Spot Caused by Cercospora beticola Sacc.; (339) Bacteriology of Butter: VIII. (IX). Salt Distribution in Butter and its Effect on Bacterial Growth; (340) Further Experiments with the Iowa Air Blast Seed Separator for the Analysis of Small-Seeded Grasses; (341) Pre-Harvest Sampling of Soybeans for Yield and Quality; (342) Retting of Hemp: I. Field Retting of Hemp in Iowa; (343) Retting of Hemp: II. Controlled Retting of Hemp; (344) Retting of Hemp: III. Biochemical Changes Accompanying Retting of Hemp; (345) Germinability of Treated and Untreated Lots of Vegetable Seed in Pythium-Infested Soil and in the Field</p