Abbas Abbaspou; yahya mohajer; hasan Asadzadeh; mojtaba rajabbaigy; bijan jahanpanah
Abstract
The study purposes to provide a pattern for agriculture education program in the ministry of Agriculture-jihad. The study is applied conducted through mixed method research design. Semi- structured interview, focus group and descriptive – analytical methods have been used in the qualitative and ...
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The study purposes to provide a pattern for agriculture education program in the ministry of Agriculture-jihad. The study is applied conducted through mixed method research design. Semi- structured interview, focus group and descriptive – analytical methods have been used in the qualitative and quantitative sections, respectively. The quantitative research population includes as many as 1600 agent in agriculture system of which driven 393 people as a sample by Cochran's formula. Purposive sampling is used for qualitative and cluster sampling for quantitative sampling. To gather the data in qualitative section, we used interview and researcher made questionnaire for quantitative one. Since the analysis was two phases exploratory, therefore, we used systematic coding for qualitative section and mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation to describe the data and T Test, Structural modeling, Factor Analysis in inferential part. Qualitative findings showed primitive constituent aspects of rural educational planning pattern involve 8 principal components and 32 indices. The quantitative findings showed there is a significant difference between empirical mean and desired one at the 0.01 level in all components and present rural education was not appropriate. The results of two phases Confirmatory Factor Analysis of construct validity and measurement models showed identified components and sub – components have fit and adequate factor loading to determine planning education program pattern for beneficiaries in ministry of agriculture-jihad.
