Application of Pragmatism School of Thought in Effectiveness of Applied Scientific Education Based on The View of Agricultural Instructors of Markazi Province

This research was conducted with the purpose of examining application of Pragmatism School of Thought components on the effectiveness of scientific- applied agricultural education based on the view point of agricultural instructors of the Center for Scientific-Applied Higher Education in Markazi Province. Total population of the study was 33 agricultural instructors. A pretest to check reliability of the instrument was conducted and Cronbachs'' Alpha was computed as α=0. 83، which indicated the high reliability of the questionnaire. To process data، SPSS/19 used and results showed that there were significant and positive relationship between project and problem solving، learning by doing، critical thinking and discovery education methods and effectiveness pragmatism. Also، there are significant and positive relationship between project، interaction with learners، and participation by learners by instructors and effectiveness of pragmatism. The result from ordinal regression analysis showed that project، critical thinking، learning by doing and interaction with learner variance in dependent variable.