Agricultural education
Heydar Sawadi Poor; Seyed Mohammad Javad Sobhani; Masoud Baradaran
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Despite the critical importance of agriculture in ensuring food security and sustainable development, there is significant concern regarding the cultivation of an entrepreneurial mindset among the young generation engaged in this sector—particularly in regions characterized by unique socio-economic ...
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Despite the critical importance of agriculture in ensuring food security and sustainable development, there is significant concern regarding the cultivation of an entrepreneurial mindset among the young generation engaged in this sector—particularly in regions characterized by unique socio-economic conditions, such as Khuzestan Province. Accordingly, this causal-correlational study, employing a mixed-methods research design, investigates the relationships among individual skills; self-efficacy; learning environment, and entrepreneurial intention among students of agricultural vocational high schools in Khuzestan Province during the 2024–2025 academic year. The statistical population comprised 2,476 students from 13 agricultural vocational schools across the province’s counties; using Cochran’s formula, a sample of 385 students was selected via cluster sampling. The research instrument was a five-point Likert-scale questionnaire. Its face validity was confirmed through expert consultation with specialists in agricultural extension and education. Convergent validity was established by calculating factor loadings and Average Variance Extracted, while discriminant validity was verified using both the Fornell-Larcker criterion and the HTMT index. Reliability was assessed using Composite Reliability and Ordinal Theta coefficient, both yielding acceptable values. Collected data were processed and analyzed using descriptive statistics, the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test, and PLS-SEM in SPSS and SmartPLS software. SEM results revealed that all individual skills exert a positive and statistically significant effect on self-efficacy. Furthermore, both self-efficacy and the learning environment significantly influenced entrepreneurial intention. However, the direct effect of the learning environment on self-efficacy was not statistically significant. Findings indicate that entrepreneurial intention among agricultural students stems from a complex interplay between individual and environmental factors.
Agricultural education
ALI piramoon; Masuod Baradaran; Moslem Savari
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The goal of agricultural science education at the level of agricultural secondary schools is to train human resources and create interest in them for agricultural production. But in this route, the agricultural secondary schools do not have a good educational status compared to ordinary schools, and ...
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The goal of agricultural science education at the level of agricultural secondary schools is to train human resources and create interest in them for agricultural production. But in this route, the agricultural secondary schools do not have a good educational status compared to ordinary schools, and they face several problems on the way to education. Most of these challenges have been in educational, research, institutional and structural dimensions. The purpose of this research was to design a model for the excellence of the quality of agricultural secondary schools in Khuzestan province. This research has been applied in nature and descriptive in order to collect data. To achieve the research goals, a combination of the the analytical network process method and the EFQM quality excellence model was used. Then, using the targeted sampling method, 28 Teachers from the five agricultural secondary schools Khuzestan province was selected in various agricultural fields. The findings showed that from the perspective of teachers to achieve the model of quality excellence in the order of criteria of resources and partners، Leadership and human resources have the highest priority. Also, from the perspective of teachers in leadership sub-criteria; strategies for monitoring the acceptance of high-quality students, Policy and strategy, decentralization and granting powers to managers, Human resources, the recruitment of efficient human resources in the educational, security and agricultural technicians sectors, resources and partners, paying attention to the livelihood factors of teachers and employees, and processes, increasing the quality of workshops of the greatest importance.
Ameneh SavariMombeni; bahman khosravipour; masuod baradaran; masuod yazdanpanah
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Agriculture is one of the most important economic sectors of the country and its role in economic and political development and stability is undeniable. The purpose of this study was investigating rural youth’ intention toward agriculture jobs in Baghmalek Township. To achieve the purpose of the ...
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Agriculture is one of the most important economic sectors of the country and its role in economic and political development and stability is undeniable. The purpose of this study was investigating rural youth’ intention toward agriculture jobs in Baghmalek Township. To achieve the purpose of the present study, the developed theory of planned behavior was used as the research framework. Research method in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection, it is survey. The population of interest was rural youth between 15 to 29 years old three rural districts of Meidawood, Mongasht and Haparo in baghmalek township. In the second phase, out of these three districts with a population of about 900 young rural people, the sample was selected as 270 rural youth based on Morgan table. Thus, the method was multi-stage cluster sampling. Data gathering tool was a questionnaire whose face validity was confirmed by several experts. In addition, to determine the reliability of different sections of the questionnaire, Pre-test and ordinal theta coefficient were used (θ= 0.73- 0.91). The results of the structural equation modeling of path analysis showed, that both self-identity variables and descriptive norms of developed theory of planned behavior have directly and positively influenced youth's willingness to work in agriculture. The results also show an increase in the predictive power of the developed theory of planned behavior over the main theory of planned behavior
saeed Mohammadzadeh; masoud baradaran; SHAHRAM MOGHADDAS FARIMANI
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One of the reasons for the low efficiency of university graduates in the Work Market is to provide the theoretical training regardless of the Work Market requirement in the Higher Education. In order to solve this problem, the Applied Scientific University and following of that ‘the training centers ...
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One of the reasons for the low efficiency of university graduates in the Work Market is to provide the theoretical training regardless of the Work Market requirement in the Higher Education. In order to solve this problem, the Applied Scientific University and following of that ‘the training centers of Jihad-e-keshavarzi were created with the aim of training qualified skills graduates who the Work Market require them .Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of comparative study of professional competencies of Applied Scientific graduates in medicinal plants course of Imam Khomeini Higher Education with the needs of Work Market in a consecutive mixed method in 2018 . To achieve the research goal, at first ,the Delphi method was used to extract Work Market competencies. The statistical community of this section included the activists of the Medicinal Plants Department and faculty members and instructors of Applied Scientific Higher Education Centers (n=27) who were selected through a targeted random sampling method. The statistical community of this stage of research included 380 Medicinal Plants graduates during 2009-2016 that 181 students of them were selected by random sampling based on Krejcie and Morgan table. The results showed that the level of competencies of the Work Market for graduates was lower than employers' expectations. It is suggested that, in order to aligning the graduates' competencies with the Work Market requirement and increasing their employment, when designing and compiling the courses of these centers, effective interaction with the employers, their expectations should be considered.
bahman Khosravipour; masoud baradaran; Fatemeh Rahimi Feyzabad
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This study was designed to investigate agriculture students’ satisfaction regarding teaching-learning process. To achieve these goals, The European Customer Satisfaction Model (ECSM) was used, as one of the most widely used model for investigating the relationship between perceived quality, value, ...
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This study was designed to investigate agriculture students’ satisfaction regarding teaching-learning process. To achieve these goals, The European Customer Satisfaction Model (ECSM) was used, as one of the most widely used model for investigating the relationship between perceived quality, value, and satisfaction. The study was designed as a cross-sectional survey. The population of interest consists of 320 MSc students from Khuzestan agriculture sciences and natural resources university based on Krejcie and Morgan sampling table 175 students selected through a simple random sampling method. The data were collected through a structured questionnaire which was developed. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by a panel of experts from related disciplines. To determine the reliability of the various sections of the questionnaire, the ordinal theta coefficient was used (θ= %87- %95). Descriptive analysis revealed that students' satisfaction regarding university teaching and learning process was moderate to high. Structural Equation modelling using Amos24 showed that perceived value was most important predictor of student satisfaction while student’ expectations had most indirect predictor of the student’ satisfaction, The findings yield educational policy and recommendations for stimulating high educational quality among universities.
bahman khusravipour; masoud baradaran; bahareh abedi
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To develop entrepreneurship in agricultural sector, it is essential to improve entrepreneurship spirit among its students. This study is aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological entrepreneurial features and entrepreneurial spirit of agriculture students. This study was a descriptive- ...
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To develop entrepreneurship in agricultural sector, it is essential to improve entrepreneurship spirit among its students. This study is aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological entrepreneurial features and entrepreneurial spirit of agriculture students. This study was a descriptive- correlation research. The statistical population consisted of 182 agricultural graduate students in 2014 at Ramin Agricultural and Natural resource university. Randomly stratified sample consists of 123 students.Standard questionnaire of Shahid Chamran University along with a researcher-made questionnaire with numerical range of zero to ten were used to collect data. Data processing soft wares were SPSS20 and LISREL8/5. The correlation and confirmatory factor analysis test were used. Results showed that the mean of all psychological features except the need to autonomy were above the average. Also, there was statistically significant relationship between entrepreneurial features and entrepreneurial spirit. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the highest loadings were the need to achievement, responsibility, internal locus of control and endurance features. These features were the most important features to form the entrepreneurial spirit of students. The above average level of entrepreneurship spirit implies that graduate students at Khuzestan Ramin Agriculture and Natural Resources University are psychologically potential to become entrepreneurs
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Nourish creativity among students as an essential pillar of knowledge-based development, is fundamental to enhance their competences. On the other hand, experts of creativity domain emphases on action between people and combination of knowledge, idea and information to nourish creativity among students. ...
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Nourish creativity among students as an essential pillar of knowledge-based development, is fundamental to enhance their competences. On the other hand, experts of creativity domain emphases on action between people and combination of knowledge, idea and information to nourish creativity among students. Thus, this study aims to investigate the social capital role on students’ creativity. Statistical population of this research was consisted of 1400 students in Khouzestan Ramin agricultural and natural recourses university; from those 112 students were selected as sample using stratified random sampling. The main tool to collect data was mad questionnaire. Structural Equation Model (SEM) via LISREL8.8 software was used to evaluate validity and reliability of the research questionnaire, and also to examine goodness of the latent variables. Findings of ESM analysis indicated that structural social capital, cognitive social capital and knowledge sharing among students have a direct and significant effect on student’s creativity. While, analysis showed that Communicational social capital don’t have a direct effect on student’s creativity and it effected on student’s creativity within mediation of knowledge sharing variable.
feyzullah Monavvarifard; masuod baradaran; lalaeh salehi; behnam hemati; meysam rafe
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Students’ perception about the Educational Services Quality (ESQ) is a fundamental key to improve educational activities and students’ academic achievement in higher education institutions around the world. However, the influencing mechanisms of students’ perception of ESQ on academic ...
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Students’ perception about the Educational Services Quality (ESQ) is a fundamental key to improve educational activities and students’ academic achievement in higher education institutions around the world. However, the influencing mechanisms of students’ perception of ESQ on academic achievement have not been considered seriously by researchers. Therefore, the aim of this survey was to investigate that how agricultural student’s perception of QES in Ramin University affects on their academic achievement. Statistical population of this research was consisted of M.SC students; from that by using Krejcie and Morgan sampling table 110 participations were selected. Structural Equation Model (SEM) via LISREL software was used to evaluate validity and reliability of the research questionnaire, and also to examine goodness of the latent variables and to test research hypothesizes. The result of confirmatory factor analyses confirm both “the validity and reliability” of the questionnaire and “the goodness the latent variables”. The results of path analysis by using the AMOS software portrayed that the interaction quality and the university’s atmosphere quality have most direct affect on student’s perceive of ESQ and have most indirect affect on student’s academic achievement. In the other where, perception of ESQ and satisfaction in total has most direct affect on student’s academic achievement. Moreover, perception of ESQ has significant affect on students’ academic achievement.
sheyda jahangiri; masuod baradaran; bahman khusravipour; mansour ghanian
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This study aims to identify psychological and sociological characteristics associated with the entrepreneurial spirit in students. Research method of this study was survey research. The data collection tools was a researcher-made questionnaire plus two standard tests. Total population was 262 graduate ...
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This study aims to identify psychological and sociological characteristics associated with the entrepreneurial spirit in students. Research method of this study was survey research. The data collection tools was a researcher-made questionnaire plus two standard tests. Total population was 262 graduate students of Ramin Agricultural and Natural Resources University and 170 persons of them were selected randomly by Krejcie and Morgan Table. Based on the results the entrepreneurial spirit in our study was relatively poor and the majority of students' had quite desirable characteristics of creativity, Internal control center, need for achievement, dedication and determination but undesirable risk taking Propensity and independence features. In the level of Ninety-five percent, there is a significant statistical difference between entrepreneurial spirit in terms of educational and employment history. also in the level of Ninety-five percent and Ninety-nine percent, there is a significant difference in terms of faculty and academic disciplines, is in the creativity feature, Thus agricultural and rural engineering college student and Mechanization Department, compared to other faculties and disciplines have been more creative. In the level of Ninety-five percent, there is a positive correlation between entrepreneurial spirit and need for achievement with educational level and in the level of Ninety-nine percent there is a negative correlation between dedication and determination with birth order. In the level of Ninety-five percent there is a positive correlation between creativity with Education level of mother
