Investigating Factors Affecting the Attitude of Agriscienc's Students from University of Tehran towards Agricultural Practical Educations

The present research was carried out to investigate factors affecting the attitude of agriscience students of the University Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran towards agricultural practical education. Thesample of the study consisted of 335 agriscience students using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The total statistical population comprised of 2032 junior and senior BSc students of agriculture. The instrument of the research was a researchers-made questionnaire. The validity was approved using expert opinion of the facultymembers the Department of Agricultural Extension & Education, University of Tehran. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by Cronbach's Alfa coefficient that was equal to 0. 72. Data analysis was done through a multiple regression analysis. The findings indicated that there were nine variables affecting the attitude of students towards agricultural practical education. These variables were as follows: (1) the level of interest to their major subject, (2) outdatedness of equipment, laboratory devices and materials, (3) Reducing the size of practical education team, (4) Participation in education programs for food processing, (5) Inappropriate outlines of practical courses, (6) doing agriculturalpractices in the indoor environment, (7) Lack of standard workplace for practical courses, (8) Lack of interest in field-based education courses, (9) Lack ofpractical education available for some courses. They totally explained about 40.4 percent of the total variance of the attitude of students towards agricultural practical education.