This study examines the relationship between high school newspaper or yearbook experience and performance on ACT standardized tests and college courses/tests. Journalism students had significantly higher scores in 14 of17 academic comparisons.
To better understand the worth of high school publications experiences, this study examines minority high school journalism students as compared with non-journalism minority students. Using data gathered in ACT pre-college standardized tests and results of collegiate performance, researchers found that journalism minority students outperformed non-journalism minority students in twelve of fifteen major academic comparisons. For this study, 5,369 minority students were studied from a national database. Of those, 993 (18.5%) had served on the staff of a high school newspaper or yearbook.
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