title: Science achievement in secondary school students across rural and urban South Dakota locales.
abstract: While many efforts have been made at the graduate level to train physicians for rural South Dakota, there has been little work to identify how geographic locale affects the science achievement of high school students. This study utilized the urban-central locale code system to analyze South Dakota high school student ACT science scores. Rural student achievement was significantly lower than students from city and town locales. By analyzing such correlations, unique strategies can be developed to improve secondary rural science education and increase the number of students pursuing careers in rural medicine.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maas
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amolins
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vitiello
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D012424:Rural Population; D012586:Science; D013023:South Dakota; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014505:Urban Population