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This two-phase research was done to identify and prioritize mechanisms of academic entrepreneurship in agricultural higher education. According to the research purpose, criteria to select key expert participants were identified as: actual experience in academic entrepreneurship, managerial experience ...
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This two-phase research was done to identify and prioritize mechanisms of academic entrepreneurship in agricultural higher education. According to the research purpose, criteria to select key expert participants were identified as: actual experience in academic entrepreneurship, managerial experience in policy making and institutional supporting for academic entrepreneurship, and professional experience as lecturer or researcher in academic entrepreneurship. A total of 24 experts participated in this Delphi technique. By a three-round Delphi study, the first phase was conducted in order to identify alternative mechanisms and criteria of academic entrepreneurship in higher agricultural education. As findings of the first phase, 5 alternatives and 7 criterion were extracted. Using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), extracted alternative mechanisms and criteria of academic entrepreneurship were prioritized in the second phase. Required data was collected through pair-wise comparison and Expert Choice software used to analysis data. Finally, five methods of academic entrepreneurship ranked based on the seven criterion as: set up spin-off and start-up firms by agricultural faculty members for commercialization of research and supplying scientific services has the highest rank (relative weight of 0.242). Then set up a university academic cooperative, with relative weight of 0.242, licensing or selling patents, with relative weight of 0.213, contract research, with relative weight 0.182 and providing education and consulting services out of university, with relative weight of 0.099 got the next rank. Each mechanism of academic entrepreneurship has a different impact and specific implication.
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One of the biggest challenges facing the youth, especially students career in field of study. The future also depends on the type of attitude and their willingness that if there is no appropriate attitude in field of study can not be expected to develop and improve his skills. This study, is conducted ...
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One of the biggest challenges facing the youth, especially students career in field of study. The future also depends on the type of attitude and their willingness that if there is no appropriate attitude in field of study can not be expected to develop and improve his skills. This study, is conducted to graduate students of Agricultural Education and Rural Development at Razi University towards their prospective employment by using Q tecknique. Statistical population of this reearch consisted to graduate and post Graduates student of agriculture education and rural development majors at Razi University, 29 of whom were selected purposively with Snowball sampling. their prospective employment. Thirty five Phrases were extracted based on the interviews with selected this students in focus groups. A questionnaire consisting of 35 cards and an answer sheet(Q diagram) to graduate students of Agricultural Education and Rural Development was the extent of their agreement or disagreement. Data analyzed by Q exploratory factor. SPSSWin20software applied to process data. According to the results obtained from Q factor analysis, the mentality of the students participating were claified in mentality, entrepreneurial, passive and disappointed, Hopefully and searching for opportunity, Perspective discrimination and realistic, revealing the attitudes of students towards their career disciplines and the most important is the attitude of the students entrepreneurial attitude towards their future employment.
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In recent years, career decision-making has always been considered one of the main challenges students in universities and educational centers. Uncertainty in decision making and subsequent career in the future concerns the issue of obtaining a job after graduating, intellectual concern for many students, ...
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In recent years, career decision-making has always been considered one of the main challenges students in universities and educational centers. Uncertainty in decision making and subsequent career in the future concerns the issue of obtaining a job after graduating, intellectual concern for many students, especially in the last years has education. The purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing career decision making Graduate Agricultural of Universities in Ilam Township. All graduated students of Universities in Ilam Township as the Statistical population(N=2000). The sample size if 400 graduated students based on Morgan table was taken randomly. After designing and validating the questionnaire, it was pilot- test among 30 graduated students by Cronbach's alpha. Data processing and statistical analysis was performed using SPSS19. Based on the results, Factor analysis revealed five factors with eigenvalues greater than 1 were extracted. In total, 57.564 % of the total variance was explained by factors And 42.436 of the remainder of the factors that were identified in the analysis. The results of ordinal regression models showed that age, structural and political factors, economic factors and personality traits have the most influence on decision-making graduates job.
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This descriptive-correlation study was comdmcted to investigate factors influencing the statistical information technology by agricultural and natural resources students of Nahavand Payame Noor University. the population study was 318, from whom 175 students were selected by stratified random sampling ...
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This descriptive-correlation study was comdmcted to investigate factors influencing the statistical information technology by agricultural and natural resources students of Nahavand Payame Noor University. the population study was 318, from whom 175 students were selected by stratified random sampling Technique. Data were collected by questionnaire That’s validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was measured through ordinal alpha coefficient (α=0.86).According to findings, agricultural student had Medium attitudes towards the adoption of information technology in general. The result of path analysis showed that the variable of students’ attitudes towards using information technology had the most significant effect on the adoption of information technology (β= 0.56). Furthermore, the other variables like: working experience with internet and computers (β= 0.53), Participate in training courses(β=0.46), students’ perception of easy application (β=0.39), usefulness (β=0.28) and their proficiency in English language (β= 0.20), had the most effects on the adoption of information technology and respectively ranked in other priorities. It suggested that necessary condition to provid positive attitudes for the students and more use of information enhancing literacy and experience using of computers and other information in students through their participation in computer training classes and courses.
saeed karimi
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Entrepreneurship education is a fast growing area and a hot topic in colleges and universities all around the world, and its supposed benefits have been much praised by researchers and educators; nevertheless, the outcomes and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programs have remained largely ...
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Entrepreneurship education is a fast growing area and a hot topic in colleges and universities all around the world, and its supposed benefits have been much praised by researchers and educators; nevertheless, the outcomes and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programs have remained largely untested. Building on the theory of planned behavior, an ex-ante and ex-post survey was used to assess the impact of entrepreneurship education programs on students’ entrepreneurial intentions and also to explore the benefits of these programs. Data were collected by a questionnaire from a sample of 109 participants in entrepreneurship courses at four universities (Bu-Ali Sina, Kordestan, Shahrekord, Ilam). Entrepreneurship education had significant positive impacts on motivational factors (i.e., subjective norms, attitudes and perceived behavioral control) and students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Moreover, from the three entrepreneurship education-related benefits (i.e., learning, inspiration and resources) learning proved to be associated with the increase in perceived behavioral control, entrepreneurial attitudes intentions. In total, this study shows the theory of planned behavior can provide a useful framework to assess the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education.
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The aim of this study was to identify factors influencing the satisfaction of graduates employed in the agricultural sector. The research is a cause-correlational .Statistical population consisted of all alumni of agricultural extension and education working related to their field in agricultural sector ...
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The aim of this study was to identify factors influencing the satisfaction of graduates employed in the agricultural sector. The research is a cause-correlational .Statistical population consisted of all alumni of agricultural extension and education working related to their field in agricultural sector in the Northern provinces (Mazandaran, Golestan and Gilan). Due to the limited size of the population, the census was done (N=51). The research tool was a questionnaire, the validity of which was approved by agricultural extension experts and faculty of agricultural extension and education in Islamic Azad University of Sari and its reliability was estimated to be =θ0.89. Data analysis in two descriptive and analytical statistics was done by applying SPSSWin21. The research showed that 56.9 percent of the graduates, were assessed the alignment and compatibility of their learned with their job duty as good. Graduates obtained capabilities in the areas of communication, management, evaluation, planning, research and teaching at the intermediate level. Graduates had a good and positive attitude toward their field of study. Based on the opinion of graduates, employed in operational level of agricultural activities, the importance and priority of the main courses to electives was emphasized. There was a significant and positive relationship among alignment and compatibility of learned (with their job duties) and graduates’ attitude (toward agricultural extension and education fields) with graduates’ satisfaction .The ordinal regression showed that alignment and compatibility of learned and attitude can estimate 64 percent of the possibility of changing the dependent variable
ali akbar abbasi; mansour ghanian; bahman khosravipour
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Optimal management of human resources by establishing job satisfaction causes the elevation of organization productivity. This study aimed to structural equation modeling of tobacco extension agents’ job satisfaction by motivational and environmental factors. The statistical population of this ...
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Optimal management of human resources by establishing job satisfaction causes the elevation of organization productivity. This study aimed to structural equation modeling of tobacco extension agents’ job satisfaction by motivational and environmental factors. The statistical population of this research consisted of 46 tobacco extension agents in Mazandaran and Golestan Provinces. The data collection tool was a questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by a panel of experts, and its reliability was measured through composite reliability (CR) ranging from 0.82 to 0.96. The findings showed that 9% of the agricultural extension agents job satisfaction was at very high, 22.7% was at high, 38.6% was at medium, 20.5% was at low and 9% was at very low level. The most effective factor on extension agents job satisfaction was the environmental factor with path coefficient of 0.53 explaining 0.58 % of changes related to extension agents’ job satisfaction. Motivational factor also affected with path coefficient of 0.35 on extension agents job satisfaction. Also environmental factor affected on motivational factor with path coefficient of 0.47.
roya Eshraghi samani
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To encourage farmers contribution in extension training expenses requires special treatment. This article dealing with factors affecting wheat farmers willing to pay for agriculture extension services in Ilam Province. The statistical population consisted of 57,262 wheat farmers, out of which 381 farmers ...
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To encourage farmers contribution in extension training expenses requires special treatment. This article dealing with factors affecting wheat farmers willing to pay for agriculture extension services in Ilam Province. The statistical population consisted of 57,262 wheat farmers, out of which 381 farmers were selected as research sample through stratified random sampling method according to the Morgan table. Data collection tool was a researcher-designed questionnaire. Face and content validity of the questionnaire were confirmed by a panel of agriculture extension and education experts at Ilam Islamic Azad University. The construct validity was also confirmed by two-criterion convergent validity (AVE=0.79, CR = 0.85). Reliability of the questionnaire was estimated by ordinal alpha coefficient (α=0.84). Logistic regression model applied through Eviews8 software. It was found that, only 28.08% of respondents expressed their willingness to pay for agriculture extension services. According to the regression estimation, factors influencing wheat growers’ willingness to pay for agriculture extension services in Ilam, included farmers’ educational background, income from non-agricultural sources, wheat cultivation area, experience in wheat growing, satisfaction with extension services, and willingness to use extension services. Except the factor ‘having income from non-agricultural sources, all other factors had positive impact on wheat growers’ willingness.
Mehrnaz Khayati; Vahid Aliabadi; Hasan Sedighi
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To achieve sustainable agriculture and appropriate, should be between socio-economic factors and environmental factors, individual, personal and spiritual balance This study aims to distinguish knowledge of wheat farmers in sustainable agriculture was based on socio-economic variables. 8532 is ...
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To achieve sustainable agriculture and appropriate, should be between socio-economic factors and environmental factors, individual, personal and spiritual balance This study aims to distinguish knowledge of wheat farmers in sustainable agriculture was based on socio-economic variables. 8532 is the population size. According to Cochran formula, the sample size of 130 was determined and the data were collected from them.this study was causal-way communication to field conducted by way of a questionnaire survey and the validity of professors of agricultural extension and education at Tarbiat Modarres University confirmed And alpha coefficient was calculated by using the R software and its value is equal to (89 = α) was confirmed was confirmed. Data analysis in two parts: descriptive and inferential statistics(Regression) were performed using SPSS software SPSS19. Results showed that the More of farmers in the area of sustainable agriculture farmers 'medium' Of socio-economic variables (age, yield the amount of land irrigated farming, the number of the company's promotional periods) high power levels24 based on environmental concerns are rural
