A Study of the business and development level associated with Job Skills of Agricultural Applied-Scientific Students of West Azerbaijan Province of Iran

Agricultural applied-scientific education that develops the practical skills of students to getter with theoretical education can development of job skills take steps with development of job skills in educational programs in reinforcing the specification، abilities and skills of students. The aim of the study was to investigate the rate of the Business and the development of job skills of agricultural applied-scientific students of West Azerbaijan province of Iran in 2010. The study was performed based on the general frame of research survey. The statistical community of the study was645 applied-scientific students. The sample were160 that were calculated by the Cochran formula. And the data was chosen through the random stratified sampling. The validity of the study instrument was confirmed by the professors of Tehran and Teacher Training Universities and agricultural applies-scientific specialists. The reliability of the study was calculated by Cronbachs’ alpha coefficient (r=0/82) for the whole questionnaire variables. The coefficient shows that the instrument of the study was reliable. The data were analyzed by SPSS win software. The results of the spearmen’s’ correlation coefficient showed that there is positive and significant relationship between age، the level of father education، monthly family earnings، the application of entrepreneurship education methods and developing job skills of students. With consideration to the importance of the agricultural applied- scientific education and the need of agricultural sector to professional graduators in business and development of the job skills، the study suggests that the educational workshops should be considered as the most effective educational method. The priority should be given to the content of the major lessons. In different stages، the syllabuses should be designed at the purpose of training students to improve their skills for hunting jobs، professions and business.