Hassan Alipour Alipour; Seyed Davood Haji Mirrahimi; Seyed Jalaledin Basam Basam; Abdolah Mokhber Mokhber; Amir Hagiahmadi Hagiahmadi
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Investigation the employment status of graduate in higher education institutes is one of the important and determine index in effectiveness of educational courses in order to promote the employment of the graduates.Therefore the purpose of this study was the effectiveness ...
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Investigation the employment status of graduate in higher education institutes is one of the important and determine index in effectiveness of educational courses in order to promote the employment of the graduates.Therefore the purpose of this study was the effectiveness of training courses of technical and vocational centers in Imam Khomeyni center as the biggest educational centers in Jihad-e Agriculture. Target population included agricultural technician graduates in the five years period (N=355). For this purpose 170 graduates were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data was collected by a standard questionnaire from Kirk Patrick evaluation model in two sections: assessing employment status of graduate and determine the effectiveness of training courses in employment of graduates. According to the results of study 64% of graduates were employed. The results of the impact of training courses on scientific and vocational skills based on Kirk Patrick model (in four level reactions, learning level, job performance and graduates' behavior) indicated that reaction of 43 percent of technician graduates in this center about training courses have been moderate.77 percent of graduates expressed that learning level in training coerces in this center have been moderate. Also, job performance among 44 percent of graduates was moderate. Finally 59 percent of graduates expressed that have more behavioral changes than those who were not trained. Results of structural equation modeling(SEM) indicated that except the reaction level, three other levels (learning, performance and behavior) had more roles in determining the effectiveness of training courses in this center.
saeed mazbohi; Alireza Assareh; Mahdieh Shirasb Shirasb
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The aim of this study is the effectiveness of social capital on sharing knowledge amongst the Agricultural Engineering students of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran. The current study is applicable in the case of purpose and correlational descriptive survey in the case of the ...
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The aim of this study is the effectiveness of social capital on sharing knowledge amongst the Agricultural Engineering students of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran. The current study is applicable in the case of purpose and correlational descriptive survey in the case of the method of data collection. The statistical population was the aforementioned students from which 200 people were randomly chosen based on Cochran’s formula. The data collection tools included two questionnaires of social capital and knowledge sharing. Validity was confirmed through pilot implementation, and content through the judgement of experts and the comprehensive review of the literature. Reliability was calculated by Cronbach’s Alpha including 0.790 for the social capital questionnaire and 0.89 for the knowledge sharing questionnaire which indicate the high reliability. The data was analyzed by SPSS Software and also through Pearson’s Correlation Test and Regression Test. In the study, there was a positive and significant relationship between social capital as a whole and its dimensions including structural, communicative and cognitive social capital, and knowledge sharing amongst the students (P < 0.05). The dimensions of structural, communicative and cognitive social capital indicated a 77% of the changes of knowledge sharing. The conclusion includes the effectiveness of social capital on knowledge sharing. It is thus recommended that the policy-makers and planners of the education sector should take this matter into account for better planning and improving the outcome of education system.
vahid aliabadi; raza movahedi; abdolhamid papzan
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Today, one of the main indicators in the assessment of development in countries is their sharein producing knowledge .Thus, performance evaluation of educational units, which in turn leads to efficiency enhancement, has gained significant importance. Because the success of each faculty requires performance ...
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Today, one of the main indicators in the assessment of development in countries is their sharein producing knowledge .Thus, performance evaluation of educational units, which in turn leads to efficiency enhancement, has gained significant importance. Because the success of each faculty requires performance measurement and planning to improve it, Performance Appraisal of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Departments Agricultural Extension and Education in Entrepreneurship Sciences production using Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) his descriptive analytical study was done in 2016. A researcher-designed form was used for datacollection Departments Agricultural Extension and Education In this research, the aim of measuring the relative efficiency and rankings of the Iranian Agricultural Extension and Education Training Group, which consists of 12 groups, is using the applied analytical research method and the data envelopment analysis method, including BCC and CCR multiples models, and Gray Relationship Analysis with WinQSB software. And Deap 2.1 have been used to determine the relative efficiency coefficient of the output-driven axis, and for comparing and ranking the effective education and training group, Gray relationship analysis has been used. The results showed that 34% of the education and training education group under the CCR model, and 48% based on the BCC model, have the ability to generate knowledge of entrepreneurship and the educational groups, have a relative efficiency in the production of knowledge of entrepreneurship. Based on the analysis of Gray's relationship, the promotion and education groups of the universities of Gorgan, Razi, Ahvaz, Zanjan and Tehran are effective in producing knowledge of entrepreneurs
mahnaz amiramini khalafloo; Parviz Bayat
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Since the mission of each information system is to accelerate the use of information by users, hence, knowing users, their needs, and the ways in which they use information is essential and the provision of information resources, regardless of the information needs of learners, will result in the loss ...
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Since the mission of each information system is to accelerate the use of information by users, hence, knowing users, their needs, and the ways in which they use information is essential and the provision of information resources, regardless of the information needs of learners, will result in the loss of human resources, budget and other facilities. Therefore, the research was conducted to investigate the information needs and information seeking behavior of students of Applied Scientific Training Center of Jihad-e-Agriculture in Bushehr province. The research method was survey and using a questionnaire. In this study, content validity method was used for validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used for measuring reliability. The statistical population of this study included students of that center during the first semester of academic year 2014-15 (N = 314). After removal of incomplete questionnaires, 282 items of the questionnaire were used for final analysis. The research findings showed that students' motivation was the most to seek information, prepare reports and study research. The most important source of information was the need for specialized literature introduced by the professors. Most students use the Internet between 3 and 6 hours a week, which is the most widely used e-mail, search engine such as Google and specialized databases for learning. The most important barriers to accessing the community are English language abilities, lack of resources in the library and a large amount of information retrieved.
elham Ahmadifard; esmail karamidehkordi
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Information sources are important sources for any enterprise and access. Proper, updated and accurate information in managing an enterprise help it improve its performance in products' value chain. The purpose of this study was to understand sources and methods of providing required information of rural ...
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Information sources are important sources for any enterprise and access. Proper, updated and accurate information in managing an enterprise help it improve its performance in products' value chain. The purpose of this study was to understand sources and methods of providing required information of rural silk carpet weavers. Using a case study methodology, data were collected through focus groups, semi-structured interviews, participatory diagramming, document analysis and observations. The study was conducted with silk carpet weavers of 90 rural households from 23 villages in the Zanjan Township and market actors from the cities of Zanjan, Qom and Kashan. In entrepreneurial carpet production system, carpet weavers required information for knowing appropriate entrepreneurs, increased carpet quality and providing carpet after weaving in two stages of before production and in the process of production. Entrepreneurs and family members were main information sources of carpet weavers for knowing an appropriate entrepreneur. Moreover, actors such as rural health homes, Commerce Administration, and the Rural Hand Weaving Carpet Union were the most important information sources of the weavers. At the stage of production, entrepreneurs provided required updated information of the weavers for increasing silk carpet quality. On the other hand, in the carpet self-producing system, local actors and market actors acted as main information sources of the weavers before and during production, while public and semi-public sources, which provide information during production, were not considered as important sources. This shows information sources and their providing methods depend on hand weaving carpet production system.
Masoumeh Taghibaygi Taghibaygi; Masoud Baradaran
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Psychologists and researchers believe that improving the quality of learning is not possible unless the higher education system of agriculture addresses the concepts of metacognition, given the importance and necessity of meta-cognition in order to improve the learning process and improve the quality ...
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Psychologists and researchers believe that improving the quality of learning is not possible unless the higher education system of agriculture addresses the concepts of metacognition, given the importance and necessity of meta-cognition in order to improve the learning process and improve the quality of agricultural education system. The general purpose of this descriptive-survey study was to study the status of metacognitive components including knowledge, mastery of metacognitive behavioral strategies and behaviors among agricultural students in Khuzestan province(N=3700), 300 of them were selected randomly by stratified random sampling and were selected based on krejcy and morgan tables, The standard questionnaire for metacognitive knowledge of Shrow and Denison (1994), the standard questionnaire for mastering meta-cognitive strategies of De Groot and Pintrich (1990), and the metacognitive behavioral skills questionnaire. The designed as researcher-made. To measure the reliability of the research instrument, pre-test was performed calculated sequential theta test through R software (θ=0/93).The results manova test showed that the students were moderately high in terms of the three componentsofmeta-cognition.There wasasignificant difference between the three components of metacognition between different educational levels ofmetacognitive awareness and behavioral skills related to metacognition.And in terms of comparision of the averagesPhDstudents had higher metacognitive knowledge and knowledge than other levels. Kruskal Wallis test showed that students with different meanings in terms of meta cognitive awareness have a significant difference. It can be concluded that by increasing thelevel of the individuals experience in learning, the learningprocess improves in the person. Also,mastering the meta-cognitive on the academic achievement of learners.
abbas khAKPOUR
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The purpose of this research is to identify the role of scientific capabilities, research motivation and perceived economic well-being in the research procrastination among graduate students in engineering groups. Also, the relationship between research variables with demographic variables has been tested. ...
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The purpose of this research is to identify the role of scientific capabilities, research motivation and perceived economic well-being in the research procrastination among graduate students in engineering groups. Also, the relationship between research variables with demographic variables has been tested. The statistical population of the study consisted of all graduate students in the engineering fields of the University of Malayer, including 110 people. The research sample size is 86 people selected by random stratified method. Researcher-made questionnaires were used to collect information. Validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by factor analysis and its reliability was confirmed using Cornbrash’s alpha. According to the findings of the research, there is a significant relationship between research motivation and research procrastination, and more than 14% (Adjusted R Square = 0.141) of research procrastination are explained by the research motivation. But scientific capabilities and economic well-being are not directly related to research procrastination and are not reliable predictors of research procrastination. Of course, there is a significant negative relationship between research motivation and perceived economic well-being. There is also a significant relationship between demographic variables and procrastination.
soheila pourjavid; Bahman Khosravipour; Amirhossein Alibaygi
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Universities and Agricultural higher education institutes as the main institutions for agricultural knowledge production have new roles and responsibilities in economic and regional development, and therefore need some forms of agility. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explain organizational ...
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Universities and Agricultural higher education institutes as the main institutions for agricultural knowledge production have new roles and responsibilities in economic and regional development, and therefore need some forms of agility. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explain organizational agility mechanisms in Iranian higher agricultural education system. Data were collected through in-depth and semi-structured interviews, and analyzed using MAXqda11 software. codes extracted were divided into four category including stimulants, capabilities, facilitators and barriers. Based on the findings, the components identified in the stimulant section of agility were changes in expectations of customers and government, technological changes, and competitiveness of universities (4 components). Agility capabilities included competency of agricultural university, the speed and flexibility of the university in the face of change, responsiveness, Knowledge-based, learning and Innovative universities (6 components). Agility facilitators identified as flexible structure, agile workforce, continuous improvement in thinking and action, culture of change, use of Information technology by the university, and establishing the relationships, interactions and effective cooperation of agricultural university with Environment(6 components). in the dimension of agility inhibitors, two components including internal and external barriers were identified. Considering the above components is essential for agility of higher agricultural education system, and improving of decision making process in agricultural universities.
Ali Sadeghi; Masoud Bijani
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Today, statistics are used in all areas of science to achieve tangible and reliable results so that it is rarely possible to interpret and analyze the results of scientific research without using appropriate statistical data processing (in two aspects of quantitative and qualitative). But the main challenge ...
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Today, statistics are used in all areas of science to achieve tangible and reliable results so that it is rarely possible to interpret and analyze the results of scientific research without using appropriate statistical data processing (in two aspects of quantitative and qualitative). But the main challenge in this regard is how to correctly apply statistical methods in research. Agricultural research is no exception in this regard. Interestingly, some are overwhelmed by the use of statistics and their research isn't more than a play with statistical methods, and some are somewhat involved with data play and making which leads to the formation of a kind of deviation and misuse of statistics in research which is referred to as “statistification”. Some people do not believe to use statistics in their research. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze “pathology of statistics application and data processing in agricultural scientific research”. This applied descriptive research in terms of research methodology paradigm is a qualitative inquiry, was conducted using a classic Delphi technique in three stages. The sample whose were chosen by purposive sampling method are faculty members and Ph.D. students with agriculture majors in Iran (n=17). The most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats were known as perceived by respondents and at the end all four rates averages were calculated with SWOT analysis matrix. The results showed that the resulting point of the SWOT matrix was located in the area of SO (aggressive strategies). Accordingly, proposed strategies were prepared and presented.
Omid Jamshidi; Bondori Abolmohammad; Asghar Bagheri; Abbas Norouzi; Javad Sobhani Sobhani
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Regarding the importance of employment in the rural areas, as one of the most important policies in agricultural higher education programs, nevertheless a significant proportion of graduated does not involve in rural activity. So this study was aimed to investigate the attitudes of agricultural students ...
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Regarding the importance of employment in the rural areas, as one of the most important policies in agricultural higher education programs, nevertheless a significant proportion of graduated does not involve in rural activity. So this study was aimed to investigate the attitudes of agricultural students towards occupation in rural areas. The study was a correlation- descriptive survey and target population consisted of agricultural students of the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili in the 2016-2017 educational year (N=1192). Sample size determined using Cochran formula as 170 people and stratified random sampling method was used as a sampling method. The main research instrument was questionnaire which its validity confirmed by the panel of expert and reliability approved by AVE with the value of 0.40 to 0.48 and CR coefficient with a value of 0.77 to 0.88. The results indicated that almost 55% of respondents had the positive and relatively positive attitude towards occupation in rural areas. Also based on comparative analysis significant differences were found regarding gender and living place in term of attitude as boys and rural students had more favorite attitudes towards occupation in rural areas. Based on correlational analysis there were a significant statistical relationship between families’ income, years of living in rural areas and students’ interest with attitude. The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) also showed that three factors of "entrepreneurial individual characteristics", "social and economic factors", and "government supportive policies" explained about 86 percent of variance in dependent variable of attitudes toward occupation in rural areas.
