JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH
Year:2016 | Volume:- | Issue:37|Papers Count:10

Corporate entrepreneurship is an important factor in the development and improvement of economic performance and wealth creation and can play a very important role in improving the performance of an organization.This research aimed to investigate driving factors of entrepreneurship development in agricultural engineering, technical and consulting services corporates in Alborz Province. Statistical population included all employees of these corporates (N=207). Applying to Cochran formula, the sample size was determined (n=119). Multi-stage random sampling method was used for sampling. Va-lidity of the questionnaire was approved by faculty members of the Department of Agricultural Exten-sion and Education at Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Its reliability coefficient was approved using ordinal theta (q=0.78- 0.91). Friedman test showed that between four driving factors of entrepreneurship development, behavioral factor, had the highest rank. Factor analysis showed 57.7% of the variance of environmental factors of the driving factors explained by three factors named: social support; legislating; meritocracy, convergence and two-way interactions. This research recommended consideration delegation of authority, participating creative and innovative employees to solve corporate problems and legality to create an atmosphere of healthy competition between corporate by managers in order to develop entrepreneurship in agricultural engineering, technical and consulting services corporate.

The main concept of employability component an internationally recognized Labor market policies, Known And one of the four Column Constitute employment strategy. Which enables them to Recognition and identificationEmployment opportunities. This causel-comparative studywas done to assess the The effect on the employability component of Psychological Empowerment of agricultural students Bu Ali Sina University on thein employability was conducted Bartlett table 375 The statisrical population was consisted of1227 students studying by this u, by using the of them were randomly selected as samples.The main instrument was a questionnaireby using Cronbach's alpha test its validity was calculated (a=0.87). The software SPSS and AMOS was wad to analyze dataStructural equation suggested that the application of the components of psychological empowerment can explain 71./. percent of employability explains. The results of t - test to Comparison Psychological Empowerment among famail and In between boys and girls students Show a significant difference Between components like Feeling competency, Feeling Meaningful, Feeling Influence And a Feeling of trust there have been.

Evaluating students' learning styles and understanding how they learn, and using the appropriate teaching methods in order to improve the quality of their learning is very important. The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between educational factors and learning styles of agricultural students at University of Tehran. Survey method was applied in this research. The statistical population in this applied research was 1300 agricultural students at this university from which 300 students were selected applying stratified sampling technique. A questionnaire, including personal and academic characteristics of the students and "Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire" were developed to collect data.The realibilty of Learning Style Questionnaire was approved by using VARK test. Validity and reliability of the other parts of the research instrument were confirmed based on the evaluation of a panel of experts and composite reliability, respectively. The findings of research indicated that most of the agricultural students had an active learning style in terms of processing dimension (60%), an intuitive learning style in terms of perception dimension (55%), verbal learning style in terms of presentation dimension (56.7%), and sequential learning style in terms of perspective/understanding dimension (58.3%).The results of Spearman correlation analysis revealed that there was a significant relationship between active-reflective learning styles with handout and sensing-intuitive learning styles with textbook and combined educational resources respectively. Results of "Man-Whitney U" test revealed that there was no significance difference between learning styles of students in terms of gender and educational level.

Students educational motivation and concerns for future employment are interlocked and higher education institutions play vital role in this issue. In align with this issue, current research focused on employability skills as an inner drive for agricultural students educational motivation. Statistical population was composed of 230 agricultural students at Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center in Alborz Province. from that 144 students were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan table and through stratified sampling technique. The research instrument was a questionnaire that its face validity and its reliability were secured prior to the main data collection phase (Ordinal Theta ranged from 0.81 to 0.91). Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and binary logistic regression were the prime statistical methods applied by SPSS 23. Factor analysis showed that students educational motivation is detected in six dimensions including; motivation and innovation, motivation and professional base, emotional motivation, financial incentive motivation, motivation to learn and motivation to get the degree. Also, motivation and innovation were the most variance extracted in these dimensions. The results of logistic regression analysis showed that students educational motivation dependents to some dimensions of employability including leadership skills. Hence, curriculum concentration on leadership skills could result in students' educational motivation and achievement.

University is fertile ground for knowledge based innovations and entrepreneurship development, due to its human capital in the form of students and faculty members. Entrepreneurship lecturers are most effective factors to the desired success to achieve entrepreneurship educational goals. This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of effective lecturer on entrepreneurial motivation from the perspective of agricultural students. Statistical population was 163 Agricultural Extension and Education students (who had passed entrepreneurship course prior to this stady at Razi University). Sample size was determined 113 students using Morgan table who were selected through simple random sampling technique. Validity of the questionnaire sustained by panel of experts at the Agricultural Extension and Education department, and ordinal theta coefficient (θ=0.95) was calculated using R software to sustain the questionnaire reliability. Descriptive statistics and ordinal regression were used to process data. Results showed that personality traits have positive significant impact on entrepreneurship (p<0.05). Also results of ordinal regression showed that the criterion variables could predict 61% of the probability of the entrepreneurial motivation variability.

Environment conservation by people is related to their awareness regarding environment and peoples’ awareness is affected by several factors. Agricultural high school students would play an important role in the agriculture and natural resource sector in the future. The purpose of this cause- correlational study was to investigate factors affecting high school student’s awareness toward environment. The statistical population consisted of 187 agricultural high school students in Zanjan Province, from those 135 students were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan sampling table and applying randomized stratified sampling method. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its validity was verified by a panel of experts. A pilot study was conducted to determine the reliability of the research instrument and theta reliability coefficient was calculated (q=0.8). The finding revealed that majority of students (66.7%) had a high level of awareness. there was a positive significant relationship between students’ awareness and their average grade point, education level of their father, extent of studying books, magazine and watching TV programs regarding environment. Logistic regression analysis showed that watching TV programs regarding environment and place of living explained 66.6 percent of probability of the students’ awareness.

The main objective of this study is analyzing of economical and social factors affecting on acceptance of pressurized irrigation technology in Hamedan city. In this study, the most important tools for gathering information including questionnaire and interview technique were used to gather research essential data.Sample size of this research includes of 316 person of wheat farmers, who have selected by random method, using of Cochran from the whole society (N=15474). Also, to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire, firstly, a primal questionnaire was prepared and asked to 30 farmers and Ranking Theta was calculated about 0.85 and 0.82 respectively for Economical and social factors questionnaires . Results showed that economic variables of reduction of water consumption costs, land leveling costs reduction, financial ability of farmers, adequacy of loan amount have important and meaningful effects on irrigation technology acceptance. The analysis of data and research results has done by SPSS, the correlation analysis has also made by Kendall, Pearson and Spearman coefficient. Also, on the basis of research results, among considered social factors, the variables of investment security, providing training briefing and irrigation technology sellers advertising are important factors affecting on pressurized irrigation technology in Hamedan city.

Literature shows that personality is one of the key factors that affect well-being of different professional groups. However, little research has been undertaken related with university students. Thus, drawing on the Five Factor Personality Model, current study investigates relations between personality traits and three different kinds of well-being – engagement, boredom, and burnout- among agricultural students. The study adopted a cause-correlational method. The statistical population of this research consisted of 1780 agricultural students at Bu-Ali Sina University. According to Bartlett’s table, a sample of 260 students was chosen through random sampling method. Data was collected using four standardized self-administered scales including 15-item Big Five Inventory, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale- Student Survey, Utrecht Boredom Scale and Maslach Burnout Inventory- Student Survey. Spearman correlation formula and ordinal regression analysis was run to analyze the data. SPSSwin20 was used to do statistical analysis. The results indicate that conscientiousness and neuroticism were significantly related to each well-being dimension. In addition, agreeableness was only significantly related to burnout and openness to experience being only significantly related to boredom. In total, results indicate that personality traits can explain 5 to 16 percent of the variance in students’ well-being.

Attitudes of students is one of the most important motivation factor that is gradually changed into behavior. attitudes have an important role in behaviour formation and employment of graduate students.The aim of this study was a survey about attitude of applied-scientific agricultural graduates. related to educational factors for determining influential factors on it.The statistical community which consists of 470 graduated students gathered from educational center of khorasan-e-e razavi jihad-agriculture at the end of 2013. The study was a of retrospective research. Data collection at the base of questionnaire.the validity of questionnaire was checked by 3 specialists and its. Reliability surveyed by ordinal theta coefficient (q=0.86).the analysis of data were done in three domains of cognitive (knowledge), emotional (insight) and skill (behavior).the analysis of dependent variables and determination of influential factors on attitude was done by Probit multi regression model.The results showed that the attitude of graduated females is often an integrated attitude and partly insight and about graduated males their attitudes are often behavioral attitude. free quota graduates had cognitive attitude and young graduates had emotional attitude.

Education is crucial for development and training need assessment is essential for effiective educa-tion. For this purpose, a descriptive research methodology design with the aid of Borich Need Assess-ment Model was used to conduct the study. The target population of the study consisted of all Rainbow Trout fish farmers of Boyer-Ahmad County. Based on the model, 42 competencies needed were de-veloped to assess needs of Rainbow Trout fish farmers (N=70). The perceived level of importance and perceived level of competence of the 42 competencies of Rainbow Trout fish farmers were measured. The data were acquired by questionnaire using face-to-face interviews. A panel of experts confirmed the face validity of the questionnaire. The questionnaire was subjected to reliability testing by using a sam-ple of fish farmers outside the study area and confirmed with the ordinal Alpha value of 0.82. Overall training needs were analyzed and ranked using Mean Weighted Discrepancy Scores (MWDS). The top five competencies in need by Rainbow Trout fish farmers included fish diseases and their symptoms, characteristics of food and fish feeding, transporting and harvesting condition (release, fish density, temperature and weight).