Agricultural education
Reihaneh Shagholi; javad ghasemi; hosein nouri; ahmad sadeghi
Abstract
Agricultural Education Network is the educational network based on the website of the Institute of Agricultural Education and Extension, to improve the level of knowledge and job skills and professional behavior of agricultural stakeholders. The multiplicity of effective factors and variables in e-learning ...
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Agricultural Education Network is the educational network based on the website of the Institute of Agricultural Education and Extension, to improve the level of knowledge and job skills and professional behavior of agricultural stakeholders. The multiplicity of effective factors and variables in e-learning makes it necessary to pay attention to the quality of educational services in this system. Accordingly, the main purpose of this survey research was to analyzing components of service quality model of agricultural education network (SHAK) as perceived by learners. Statistical population of the study consisted of learners (N= 19310), out of whom 388 people determined as sample using Cochran's formula and stratified random sampling. Data were collected through a questionnaire; validity of questionnaire was approved by a panel of experts and construct validity (AVE≥0.96). Reliability of the questionnaire was approved by calculating the Ordinal Theta (θ≥0.93) and composite reliability (CR≥0.87). The collected data were analyzed by SPSSwin22 and LISREL software. The overall ranking of the SHAK service quality components showed that from the point of view of learners, the "educator" and "content" components were in the highest ranks and "planning and implementation" and "infrastructure - support" components were in the lowest ranks. Additionally, the results of the confirmatory factors analysis illustrated that the service quality model of the agricultural education network has six main components including: infrastructural-support, planning and implementation, content, educator, learners and results. Accordingly, it is recommended to improve the SHAK service quality through: improving the notification of courses, system upgrade, planning, adapt courses to the needs of the learners, updating the content, improving teaching skills and motivating learners.
Agricultural education
Hadi Hosseini; Ahmad Sadeghi
Abstract
One of the most critical concerns of planners is coordination and compatibility between the educational system's outputs and the labor market's needs. Higher education's quantitative and qualitative development should follow the predetermined goals to benefit as much as possible from graduates' abilities. ...
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One of the most critical concerns of planners is coordination and compatibility between the educational system's outputs and the labor market's needs. Higher education's quantitative and qualitative development should follow the predetermined goals to benefit as much as possible from graduates' abilities. Educational planning should provide the specialized needs of the labor market as well as prevent unemployment and waste of graduate abilities. Compatibility between job needs and quantitative and qualitative development of higher education plays a key role in getting stable jobs by agricultural graduates.Therefore, universities and agricultural higher education centers should implement educational programs in accordance with the changes, transformations, and challenges in the agricultural sector. In this article, the estimation of educated manpower needed in the fields of mechanization and agricultural machinery with a qualitative and narrative type of view and with an analytical method was discussed. This research is applied in terms of scope and descriptive study regarding the execution method. The estimation of the required manpower in the mentioned disciplines using the ratio density model by developing a focus group consisting of 10 agricultural education experts. The focus group included participants with common traits/experiences from the universities of Tehran, Azad Islamic Tehran Science and Research Unit, Agricultural Mechanization Development Center, Agricultural Engineering Technical Research Institute, Agricultural Engineering and Natural Resources Organization, and Agricultural and Industrial Machinery Union.
