Internship Courses and Its Improvement Factors in the West of the Country's Agricultural Colleges

The statistical population of the study consisted of agricultural students in the agricultural departments of the west of the country who were instructors (381=N), using the Morgan and Krejci tables, the sample size was estimated at 285 people. The second group consisted of faculty members who had an apprenticeship course at the universities and, due to their limited use, the census method was used. The third group included employers in the organizations that trainees had referred to their directorate to attend the internship, which were 63 one of them was selected by simple random sampling method. In the second part of the questionnaire, the attitude, satisfaction, apprenticeship problems of traineeship characteristics and occupational skills of students were examined from the students' point of view. In the third part of the questionnaire, the factors of improvement of the internship period were asked from employers and faculty members. To measure the reliability of the questionnaire, a tentative t test was used to test the reliability of the questionnaire through a pre-test, and through R software for different sectors (θ =. /84 to ./95). The means showed that satisfaction of students from internship courses is low based on the results of exploratory factor analysis. Improvement of the internship period was a collaborative, managerial, economic and governmental-supporting factors based on the results of linear regression of three management, economic and governmental factors - Support for more explanatory power than other factors in the improvement of apprenticeships.