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Studying determinants of entrepreneurial intention and behavior represents a central topic in entrepreneurship literature. Although creativity is often seen as a core part of entrepreneurship process, its role has not been explored by using a valid theoretical framework until now. Drawing on the theory ...
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Studying determinants of entrepreneurial intention and behavior represents a central topic in entrepreneurship literature. Although creativity is often seen as a core part of entrepreneurship process, its role has not been explored by using a valid theoretical framework until now. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, this study investigates the role of creativity in shaping and developing entrepreneurial intention and its antecedents. The statistical population of this research consisted of 1450 senior agricultural students at four public universities in the west of Iran (N=1450). According to Daniel’s formula, a sample of 300 students was chosen through random stratified sampling method. Data were collected using a questionnaire survey. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. Also, reliability of the research instrument was determined using ordinal Theta coefficient (θ =0.81-0.87). The results of structural equation modeling indicated that perceived behavioral control and attitudes toward entrepreneurship were significantly related to entrepreneurial intention, while the relationship between subjective norms and entrepreneurial intentions was not statistically significant. The results also showed that creativity was significantly related to attitudes toward entrepreneurship and perceived behavioral control. Moreover, structural equation modeling showed that creativity indirectly related to entrepreneurial intentions via perceived behavioral control and attitudes toward entrepreneurship. Findings highlight the role of creativity in developing entrepreneurial intention and contribute to the Theory of Planned Behavior and have some implications for entrepreneurship education.
SHAHRAM MOGHADDAS FARIMANI
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The Purpose of this study was to identify analytically the educational needs required by agricultural experts to promote nuclear agricultural business in Tehran province. Nuclear technology may well provide the growing population all over the world with improved food security.Agricultural extension and ...
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The Purpose of this study was to identify analytically the educational needs required by agricultural experts to promote nuclear agricultural business in Tehran province. Nuclear technology may well provide the growing population all over the world with improved food security.Agricultural extension and the related businesses may thus take advantage of this new technology to push forward the development of agriculture sector.This study is an applied type research using a descriptive correlational methodology.Also the data was collected through survey.The statistical society consisted of agricultural extension experts in Tehran province,out of whom 74 were selected as statistical sample through simple random sampling.The data analysis was carried out by SPSS software using spearman Friedman correlation test and descriptive statistics.Also,confirmatory factor analysis.The highly important training needs required by agricultural extension experts for taking advantage of nuclear agricultural practices and the related businesses were determined nuclear agricultural practices and the related businesses were determined under three categories:Knowledge and skills needed for setting up a business (8 Factors),basic Knowledge and skills needed for agricultural extension(12 Factors)andKnowledge and skills needed for nuclear agriculture (11 Factors), the findings well indicated that the respondents recognize three factors as the mast important ones in identifying their own training needs:Knowledge and skills needed for matching the needs of farmers with nuclear crops; knowledge on regional climatic conditions, and identifying the needs of the beneficiaries.Also, appositive significant correlation was observed among the respondents managerial experience and educational level and their opinion about the importance of the three categories of training needs.
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Educational achievement of Students is influenced by several factors, including their learning style and creativity. By knowing the type of learning style, creativity and their relationship with educational achievement, purposive learning is happened which Consist the purpose of this descriptive- correlational ...
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Educational achievement of Students is influenced by several factors, including their learning style and creativity. By knowing the type of learning style, creativity and their relationship with educational achievement, purposive learning is happened which Consist the purpose of this descriptive- correlational study. Research tool was a questionnaire, including personal and academic characteristics of students, Index of Kolb Learning Styles and Index of Torrance Creativity. Validity of indexes was approved because of their frequent use in previous studies. A pilot study was conducted and calculated ordinal coefficient theta was at the appropriate level (ϴ≥0.85) for different parts of questionnaire. The statistical population consist 724 undergraduate students in the faculty of agriculture, University of Zanjan from which 217 students were selected randomly as sample using Cochran formula under stratified randomized sampling method. Results showed that learning styles of assimilation (39.6 percent), accommodation (34.6 percent), divergent (14.5 percent) and convergent (11.5 percent) were the first to fourth dominant learning style among students, respectively. The majority of students (81.6 percent) had average and lower than the average of creativity in total. According to Kruskal Wallis test, there was no significant meaningful deference between students of different learning styles regarding their creativity. Results of logistic regression analysis revealed that creativity, significantly and positively affect the educational achievement, while learning style had no meaningful effect on educational achievement. Creativity, in equation, is able to predict educational achievement of students in either of the good, or weak to an extent of more than 77.9 percent correctly.
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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.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the causality relationship between agricultural educated labor and total factor productivity growth in Iran’s Agricultural Sector. The statistic of population was the educated labors in Iran’s Agricultural Sector during the period of 1981-2013. Using ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the causality relationship between agricultural educated labor and total factor productivity growth in Iran’s Agricultural Sector. The statistic of population was the educated labors in Iran’s Agricultural Sector during the period of 1981-2013. Using Johansen-Juselius co-integration test, the relationship between educated labor and total factor productivity growth in Iran’s agricultural sector was examined. Also, to examine causal relationship between educated labor and total factor productivity growth, Granger Causality test was applied. The results of Johansen-Juselius co-integration test showed that there is a positive long run co-integration relationship between the mentioned variables. Also, based on the Granger Causality test was confirmed relationship between educated labor and total factor productivity growth in the Iranʼs Agricultural Sector. Vector error correction model results indicated significant effect of educated labor on total factor productivity growth in short run. So, educated labor, by increasing productivity growth, leads to increasing production and development of the Agricultural Sector. Therefore, policy and planning in the field of education and labor guidance and transfering their information and knowledge to farmers is recommended.
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The main purpose of this study was to survey and compare the view point of agricultural undergraduates towards current and desirable status of entrepreneurship curriculum. Therefore, this applied research was a descriptive-analytical type that has been done by a surveying method. The statistical samples ...
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The main purpose of this study was to survey and compare the view point of agricultural undergraduates towards current and desirable status of entrepreneurship curriculum. Therefore, this applied research was a descriptive-analytical type that has been done by a surveying method. The statistical samples included 122 agricultural undergraduates on various disciplines which participated in the entrepreneurship curriculum at Bu-Ali Sina, Razi and Kurdistan Universities in 2013-2014 academic year. Because of the limited study's population a consensus method was used. Data were collected through a questionnaire structured in six parts. The validity of the questionnaire's questions was verified by a group of experts and the reliability of the questionnaire during a pre-test was calculated by Ordinal Alpha test through R software (α=0.71-0.94). Findings indicated an improper status of entrepreneurship education in view point of agricultural undergraduates regarding the goals, contents, teaching methods, and evaluation of learning outcomes. There was also a significant difference when current and desirable situations were compared in terms of first three mentioned items. The target students believed that the content of entrepreneurship course should include business units' management compatible to agricultural fields; this course also should be offered as applied subjects, with practical teaching methods, workshops and discussion and invite outside entrepreneurs for participation to teach entrepreneurship course at the university.
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Adequate knowledge about the information needs and seeking behavior of users is vital for developing library collections, services and facilities to meet their information needs effectively. So, the purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate information-seeking behavior of educators in education-research ...
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Adequate knowledge about the information needs and seeking behavior of users is vital for developing library collections, services and facilities to meet their information needs effectively. So, the purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate information-seeking behavior of educators in education-research activities. The research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which its validity and reliability was confirmed. The target population of this study consisted of educators (including teachers, instructors and faculty members) of agricultural-jihad educational center of Fars province (N=180) out of which, a number of 101 people were selected as statistical sample in a stratified sampling method by using Israel’s table (n=101). The result of research indicated that improving skills of teaching was the main educators' motivation of searching information. In addition, Persian books and internet were the main information sources using in teaching and research activities by educators, respectively. On the other hand, these results showed that the more than four fifth of respondents was using Google explorer engine to utilize web-based Persian journals. Furthermore reliable sources were the main criteria for using information sources. Low speed in being connected to internet, being scattered of libraries, and lack of accessing to full text of papers in journals were three top barriers in searching information stated by educators. Inferential results show there were statistical differences between the educators' use amount of information sources on the research activities regarding their education level and employment status.
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The purpuse of this study was to identifying and ranking factors explaning the quality of teachingfrom the perspective of university teachers Khouzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The subjects of the study were all 87 university teachers of Khuzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The ...
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The purpuse of this study was to identifying and ranking factors explaning the quality of teachingfrom the perspective of university teachers Khouzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The subjects of the study were all 87 university teachers of Khuzestan ramin Agriculture and natural Resources.The tools of collecting data was a questionair written by the researcher.The validity of the question was verified by education and extension university teachers,In order to measure the reliability of the questionare, Theta reliability coefficients was used,showing a favorable reliability of 0/82. The data were processed by spss 17. The result of regression showed that among 6 factors explaining the quality of teaching in teacher’s view3 components: personal and communication skills, teaching skills, planning skills were the main components determining the quality of teaching. The espearman correlation coefficient shows a positive and significant relationship between teaching experience, research experience and the quality of instruction. In this study some strategies to improve teaching quality were suggested.
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The purpose of this descriptive survey study was to measure agricultural paradigmatic preferences of agricultural faculty members in west of Iran. The statistical population consisted all 288 faculty members of agriculture at public universities (Razi, Bu-Ali Sina, Lorestan, Kordestan and Ilam) in west ...
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The purpose of this descriptive survey study was to measure agricultural paradigmatic preferences of agricultural faculty members in west of Iran. The statistical population consisted all 288 faculty members of agriculture at public universities (Razi, Bu-Ali Sina, Lorestan, Kordestan and Ilam) in west of Iran. According to the Krejcie & Morgan table, a sample size of 165 was selected using stratified random sampling method. Based on findings, the sustainability score mean for faculty members was 71.13. The range of sustainability score means for all the respondents was 40 to 109 and agricultural paradigm type of faculty members was moderate. There was a significant difference between sustainability score means male and female faculty members and of faculty members graduated from within the country universities and those universities abroad. There was a negative and significant relationship between sustainability score with age and job experiences. Analysis of variance showed that there was no significant difference between sustainability score means of faculty members with different agricultural disciplines and significant difference between sustainability score means of faculty members in the different faculties of agriculture. Based on ordinal regression analysis, six variables including gender, employment in agriculture, graduated from universities abroad, age, academic rank and job experiences were influencing on agricultural paradigm evaluation of faculty members.
jafar Torkzadeh; ghasem Salimi; Forogh Sangi
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In management and economic community the importance training and development of skilled andefficient manpower for economic and social development has been generally accepted. The human resourcedimension is one of the most important elements of agricultural education system. This studywas conducted to ...
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In management and economic community the importance training and development of skilled andefficient manpower for economic and social development has been generally accepted. The human resourcedimension is one of the most important elements of agricultural education system. This studywas conducted to evaluate and compare the dimensions of organizational indifference in Fars Agricultural-Jihad Organization. The statistical population consisted of all 733 managers and staff of FarsAgricultural-Jihad Organization (N = 733).The sample size was estimated to be 251 which were selectedthrough proportional stratified sampling applying Cochran formula. The answer rate was 91% so 230questionnaires completed and then analyzed. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire calculatedusing items analyze and cronbachs alpha methods. Results showed that there was significant differencebetween the items Indifference to managers had the highest (2/63) and indifference to customer had thelowest mean (1/77). Moreover, in viewpoint of personnel there was significant difference in indifferenceto manager between personnel with different academic levels, but there wasn't significant difference inthe average of other dimensions in personnel groups
