Agricultural Student's Motivation Towards Internship Training Course In The Agricultural College of Shiraz University, Iran

Acquisition of implicated knowledge، attitude and skill assures the major criteria of successful completion of the course. Internship is one of the courses being able to meet three dimensions altogether. However، consider to student’s motivation to engage them in such course is important issue، for planning to improve the quality of such course to undertake developing students in three dimensions. The aim of this study was to investigate agricultural students’ motivation about internship training course in agricultural College of Shiraz University. The population of this study was those students who passed internship course (N= 233). Based on Krejcie and Morgan’s table، 144 students was determined as a sample size. In order to increase the validity of data، sample size increased to 148. A total number of 148 students were selected through stratified random sampling method. Instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire that its face validity confirmed by academic experts and investigates reliability by pilot test that Cronbach''s alpha was 0. 83. Results showed that student’s motivation summarized in four factors: well being motivation، identity motivation، hedonistic motivation and idealistic motivation. The findings indicated that idealistic، wellbeing، hedonistic and identity motivations had highest average respectively. Additionally، students studying in major of food industry، plant protection and agricultural machinery had the highest average motivations in four Following categories.