A Study on Attitude of Agrisciences Students of the University of Tehran towards Application of IT in Agricultural job

Korani, Zahra; Shabanalifami, Hosein; Rezvanfar, Ahmad; Ghasemi, Javad

A Study on Attitude of Agrisciences Students of the University of Tehran towards Application of IT in Agricultural job

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The main objective of this descriptive- correlational research was to investigate "attitude of agrisciences students towards application of IT in agricultural job". The statistical population of the study consisted of the Students of the university college of agriculture and natural resources (N= 3143), out of which 218 people determined as sample using Cochran Formula and proportionate stratified sampling technique. The data were collected by a questionnaire developed for the study and were analyzed by SPSS win software. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by a panel of expert's judgment of Information Technology and agricultural extension and education. In order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach Alpha coefficients were calculated for the main scales of the questionnaire which ranged from 0.72 to 0.88. The result of correlation analysis indicated that attitude of students toward IT application in agricultural job was positively and significantly correlated with their age, average grades point, percent of internet browsing for educational purposes, extent of internet use and skill on the application of internet (at 0.05) as well as English proficiency skill, skill of internet application, extent of using search engine (at 0.01). The analysis of variance (F test) showed that students of different disciplines were significantly different in terms of the dependent variable. The regression analysis indicated that skill of computer application, extent of internet use, English proficiency skill and internet use for educational purposes were entered the model and explained 91.3 percent of total variation of the dependent variable.

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