Overall, principals expressed favorable perceptions of those programs. Principals perceive students enjoy agricultural education courses. Principals believed agricultural education courses reinforcing learning in academic courses. The overall knowledge or familiarity level of agricultural education programs by principals is generally positive. Principals believe agricultural education teachers are high quality teachers, but do not believe they are more effective than most other teachers are.
Principals generally tend to support agricultural education programs.
Principals disagreed with the statement that agricultural education courses provide little for students intellectual development. In conclusion, Iowa high school principals are supportive of agricultural education programs. Not only did they believe that the agricultural education programs were important to their community, but also believe any high school student can benefit from agricultural programs. Recommendations from this study are further research should be conducted to determine if principals perceptions have a relationship with their practices. This study was limited only to Iowa principals.