Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
- abdullah mukhber dezfoli 1
- mehrdad Teymouri 2
- omid jamshidi 2
- Shahram Moqaddas Farimani 3
- jamshid pishkar 4
1 Faculty member of Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center
2 Instructor at Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center
3 Assistant Professor of Agricultural Institute of Education and Extension
4 Faculty member of Agricultural Institute of Education and Extension
Abstract
This paper was aimed to investigate the variables affecting students' satisfaction towards practical projects amid education in the agricultural education and research centers. This was a quantitative research which applied a survey method to collect the data. The statistical population of the study was all students active in practical projects amid education equal to 102 people. This research was conducted in centers where at least 3 projects have been implemented, such as research centers of Isfahan, East Azerbaijan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Qazvin, Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran, Hamedan, Bushehr and Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center. Due to few number of members of the statistical community, all of them were studied by census method. The main research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its reliability was evaluated by Composite Reliability (CR) for each of the research instrument constructs which was above 0.7 indicating the internal reliability of the questionnaire and GOF index which was 0.571 indicting good fitness of model. The data was analyzed using PLS-SMART and SPSS software. The results showed that from the perspective of the respondents, the experience of the agent of the projects, proper supervision of project supervisors and careful planning of executive are effective in students' satisfaction towards projects.
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