نشریه پژوهش مدیریت آموزش کشاورزی
سال چهارم شماره 20 (بهار 1391)

Increasing degradation of natural resources (water and soil) in this era makes rethinking of stakeholders’ behavior inevitable in agricultural sector. Farmers have direct relationship with resources and play important role in resources to prevent it for the present and next generation. In recent years، Shiraz County، like other regions of the country، has faced destruction of its soil and water resources. To overcome to this disaster، it is necessary to improve farmers’ environmental behaviors; and to change in farmers’ attitude as an important and infrastructural element of their behavior. It is impossible to change in farmers’ attitudes without knowing the factors effecting farmers’ behavior. This study was conducted to determine Factors influencing on farmers’ environmental attitude in Shiraz County، using survey method. Questionnaire was the instrument to collect data. Multi-stage stratified random sampling was used to collect data from 272 farmers as the research sample. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of faculty members of agricultural extension and education department، and reliability was assessed by calculating Cronbach’s alpha (data from pilot study). Results showed that awareness of adverse consequences، moral norms and environmental knowledge had the most influence on forming farmers’ environmental attitude. Adduced as recommendations are 1) increasing farmers’ awareness of adverse consequences of their environmental behaviors (for self، others and the ecosystem)، 2) providing farmers’ moral training and 3) strengthening farmers’ environmental knowledge.

Due to the importance of educational technology as one of the key factors affecting educational quality، the purpose of this study was to study and analyze of educational technology factors influencing quality of secondary agricultural education. The statistical population of the study included all agricultural teachers (N=21) and students (N= 86) at secondary agricultural school in Hajiabad County in Hormozgan Provience. Data were collected by appling questionnaire. Content validity of the questionnaire was tested by a panel of experts. Pilot study was conducted for testing reliability and improving the questionnaire. Cronbach’s alpha was used to estimate reliability of the questionnaire (students: α =0. 89، teachers: α =0. 78). To analyze the data SPSS was used. The findings revealed that from teachers’ viewpoint، the quality of farm instruments and from students’ viewpoint، use of educational films according to subject matter were the most important factors influencing quality of secondary agricultural education. Factor analysis showed that 4 factors affecting educational quality were educational equipments، services، use of equipments، and availability respectively، which covered 22. 85، 20. 48، 19. 02، and 14. 64 percent of total variance (77. 01%) of the variables.

This study was conducted to investigating the attitudes of agricultural students towards E - learning and its application Barriers. The statistical population of this study consisted of all students of Agriculture Vocational School of Divandareh County (N=165). Using Kerjcie & Morgan sampling table، 116 students were selected as the sample using stratified proportional sampling method. The main instrument of this study was researcher-made questionnaire Its validity and reliability was confirmed by a panel of experts and established through calculating Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient، (α1=0. 79، α2=0. 77). Data were analyzed by SPSSWin18. Results showed that attitudes of most agricultural students toward E-learning were not positive. Also، results of means comparison showed that there were significant differences between agricultural students’ attitudes towards E-learning on field of study، participating in computer training courses and having computer at home. In addition، based on the results of factor analysis، barriers of E-learning were categorized in three factors as infrastructure، supportive and knowledge and attitude.

This study is to investigate aََttroction indicators and effective factors on selection of agriculture field by students of Scientific-Applied University. This is an applied research from the objective point of view and a descriptive-correlational as a filed research. Statistical population of this study includes two groups. The first group consist of experts in scientific-applied agriculture، in which، purposive sampling method was applied to select 51 respondents. The statistical population for the second group consisted of 403 freshman students 2010-11 academic year of Fars Agriculture-Jihad Education Center، from that، 200 students were selected as statistical sample by Krjsy and Morgan table and using quota random sampling method. The main tool for data collection in this study was questionnaire with a validity determined by panel of experts and also its reliability was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient، a=0/89 for experts and planner section. The average reliability coefficient for students was a=0/79. The results showed that from experts’ point of view، proportional indicators of diploma with selected field by students، sufficient knowledge and understanding by of students from agriculture field and priority of males over females in selection student strategy. From the students point of view، results showed that obtaining degree and solaly، education at university، are motivation factors، with highest grades as motivators in selection agriculture as major by the scientific-applied students.

The national higher education system of agriculture is encountered with serious problems in training of experienced and skilled educated students، due to dominance of theoretical training on practical training in current conditions. These problems had lead to consequences such as unemployment of university graduates in agriculture، lack of accountability to market needs، dissatisfaction of graduates، unhappiness of executive agencies and destruction of valuable resources of agricultural sector. This descriptive -survey study was carried out to identify and analyze factors influencing the quality of practical training from the perspectives of senior students of agriculture at the University of Zanjan. A stratified sampling was used to select 171 respondents from a total of346 persons who comprised the statistical population. A questionnaire was used for data collection which was further validated by an academic panel of agricultural extension and education experts. The results of factor analysis showed that the factors can affect the quality of practical training in three general categories، namely active participation of teachers in the process، planning and implementation of practical training، targeted and effective communication inside and outside the organization، and active and meaningful participation of students classified. Finally 68/69% of variance in the dependent variable was explained by these factors. Based on research findings were suggested that university has strong links with agriculture sector; Necessary equipments be given to agricultural colleges for practical training; Part-time training be provided for students during their study; Headings and content of practical courses be determined with regard to labor market needs by university، representatives of farmers and executive agencies; In educational evaluation More attention should be to Practical abilities of students; and in obtaining employment opportunities should be considered to Practical performance of students.

The goal of this research is to identifiy features and strategies of mobile learning system and its application from the standpoint of agricultural cooperatives’ managevial board. The statistic poulative of this analytical - correlative research consisted of the managers and members of board of directors of agricultural cooperatives of Zanjan Province، from that، 176 members were selected as sample، based on Cochrane formula. Questionnaires was used to collect data from the statistic society. The results showed that among advantages and restrictions of mobile learning system، lifetime learning relevant with pervasive need and hardware problems are of high priority. In this study، the most important attitudes of the managers of the cooperatives to ward usage of mobile learning is the improvement of quality of education and learning. Regarding to the results، full support of the government and authorities to develop educational service is the most solutions for application of mobile learning system. Findings of the research indicate a positive and meaningful relationship between towns for manager’ s activity with apiece of variables of attitude toward the appliance of mobile learning and understanding of the advantages of mobile learning system. Besides، the factors such as understanding of advantages and restrictions of mobile learning system are known to be the most effective factore on attitudes.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate agricultural faculties’ and postgraduate students’ attitudes toward the internationalization of the agricultural higher education and teaching specialized courses in English language. The target population of this study consisted of: 1; all agricultural post-graduate students of the agricultural majors of the College of Agriculture in Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University in 2009-2010 academic year (N1=1896)، out of which according to Kukran‘s furmula، a number of 200 people were selected using proportional stratified random samplings method. Finally 185 questionnaires were analyzed (n1=185). 2; all faculties of the agricultural majors of the College of Agriculture in Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University in 2009-2010 academic year (N2=203)، out of which according to Kukran‘s furmula، a number of 110 people were selected using proportional stratified random samplings method. Finally، 104 questionnaires were analyzed (n2=104). The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire which its validity was established using a panel of expert‘s judgment in agricultural extension and education in Tehran University and Tarbiat Modarres University. The reliability of the main scales of the questionnaire was confirmed as Cronbach‘s alpha values were all above. The results of attitudes assessment regarding the internationalization of agricultural higher education and teaching specialized courses in English language in both statistical communities showed that the rate of both statistical community consent has been high or very high and the ttest results indicated no significant difference in this area between the faculties and Postgraduate students; furthermore، within each community also was no significant difference. So there is high consensus in this regard between research statistical communities.

Educational services، especially thoes are offered by higher education instituties، are considered as one of the main services centered to the community and playing a major role in their development. The goal of this study is to assess the quality evolution of the educational services provided by TehranAgricultural Education Center through applining SERVQUAL model (tangible، reliability، responsiveness، trust worthiness، and empathy) from the students’view. This research is an applied descriptive – survey study and its statistical population was consisted of 464 students in Tehran Agricultural Education Center (Martyr Zamanipoor) in the second semester 2010-2011Asample of 133 students was determined by applying Cochran’s formula. Data was collected through SERVQUAL standardized questionnaire consisted 19 questions with Likert Scale. Results indicated that students believed that the performance of educational performance of the center was lower than their expectations. In fact they assessed the quality of provided service at low level. Respectively، the greatest gap was observed in the concrete dimension (4. 075) and the lowest gap was in the trust dimension (2. 459).

The purpose of this cause-cordatia study was to analysis factors influencing entrepreneurship in agricultural cooperatives in Iran. Managers of agricultural cooperatives were surveyed in order to explore their perception about the factors influencing the development of entrepreneurship in agricultural cooperatives. The statistices population consisted of 250 managers of agricultural cooperative in six provinces in Iran. Research instrument was questionnaire that codified base on theories and literature review. Validity of the questionare confirmed by content validity method with a panel of expert’s and its reliability confirmed by implication of pilot test and calculation of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (α = 0. 86). Data were analyzed applying SPSS and LISREL. Based on the perception of the respondents and ordinal factor analysis، factors were categorized in eight groups، namely psychological/cognitive، education، economical، organizational، financial، personal characteristics، regulatory، and social، ordered by the magnitude of their impact. Result from multiple regression analysis showed that five variables economic، educational، individual، political and psychological factors، as independent variables entered in the regression equation in five steps and totally determined 31. 1% of the variance of number of new jobs created. Also the result of multiple regression showed that four variables، include individual، economic، political and structural factors، as independent variables entered in the regression equation totally expressed 39. 8% of the variance of increase in the stock value.