Agricultural education
Abbas Norozi; seyed davood hajimirrahimi; hasan Sabzehali
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The high school student community should be considered as the biggest national capital of a country. Of the most important choices of students at the end of the first period of high school is choosing the field of study to continue studying at the second period of high school. This study was conducted ...
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The high school student community should be considered as the biggest national capital of a country. Of the most important choices of students at the end of the first period of high school is choosing the field of study to continue studying at the second period of high school. This study was conducted with the aim of studying the academic motivation of agricultural high school students in Alborz province in the academic year of 2023- 2024. The statistical population of the research was all the high school students of the mentioned fields in Alborz province (127 persons) who were selected by census. In this research, academic motivation was measured based on autonomy theory. The research method was descriptive- correlation. The tool for data collection was a questionnaire. Vallerand Bissonnette's 28-item scale was used to measure the dependent variable of the research (academic motivation. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results showed that academic self-concept with a coefficient of 0.22, interest in the field of study with a coefficient of 0.245, and attitude towards continuing education with a coefficient of 0.294 had a positive and significant effect on students' academic motivation. In total, these three variables predicted 41.2 percent of the variance of the dependent variable. Applying interviews on behalf of agricultural training centers in order to select the most motivated students to continue studying in agricultural fields is one of the suggestions of this research.
Agricultural education
majidreza khodaverdian; seyed davood hajimirrahimi; SHAHRAM MOGHADDAS FARIMANI; Soheil Ghaemmaghami; Omid Jamshidi
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In recent decades, the Ministry of Agriculture-Jahad has been holding informal skill trainings for farmers with the aim of extension of new technologies. The sample size was estimated to be 212 using the Cochran's formula. In order to select the samples, stratified random sampling method with proportional ...
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In recent decades, the Ministry of Agriculture-Jahad has been holding informal skill trainings for farmers with the aim of extension of new technologies. The sample size was estimated to be 212 using the Cochran's formula. In order to select the samples, stratified random sampling method with proportional assignment was used. The validiy of the instrument was evaluated by panel of experts including specialists of the Agricultural Research, Education . For determining the reliability of the research instrument, the pioneer test method and completing the questionnaires by a group of 30 people, outside from the statistical population and calculating the values of the ordinal theta coefficient θ = 0.81-98 . Ordinal regression findings indicate that among the characteristics of the training course, instructor and content, variables amount of practical hours of the course, ease and comprehensibility of content, the amount of practical skills of the instructor and the amount of use of scientific and specialized visits in duration of the course” remained at the level of significance of 5% and the practical skills of the instructor remained at the level of 1% in the model. Also, the results of nonparametric Wilcoxon test showed that in five indicators, increasing the technical knowledge of users, increasing the skills of users, increasing income and improving the livelihood of users, improving motivation and job satisfaction and increasing quantitatively and improving the quality of products, there are statistically significant difference between before and after participation in the courses at the 99% confidence level
seyed davood hajimirrahimi; S. R. Moosavi Davijani
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Agricultural sector is the center of resistance economy development in the country and due to its various dimensions and technological progress; there are many job opportunities to increase productivity in this sector. Considering the predominance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) businesses businesses ...
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Agricultural sector is the center of resistance economy development in the country and due to its various dimensions and technological progress; there are many job opportunities to increase productivity in this sector. Considering the predominance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) businesses businesses in the agricultural sector, human resource development, reinforcing the social, physical, financial capital and the business environment can boost the economic prosperity of these businesses. Considering the position of the agricultural sector in the economic changes of Alborz province, this study was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the economic prosperity of small and medium agricultural businesses by survey method and a questionnaire instrument. The statistical population in this study was 404 agricultural business owners in Alborz province. Sampling was done using Cochran's formula and the number of samples was 200. The sampling method was random.The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the Expert panel. The reliability of the study was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha test and combined reliability. The results showed that the business environment (%75 Impact factor) and human resources (%25 Impact factor) have a significant positive effect on the economic prosperity of SMEs. Among them, "Joint cooperation in infrastructure", "Holding conferences, exhibitions and introducing new agricultural ideas", "Business unit communication structure and information transfer between colleagues", "Continuous training of human resources" "And the participation of skilled people" have the highest priority in the economic prosperity of small and medium-sized agricultural businesses.
