Agricultural Education Pathology in Payam-e-Noor University (PNU) of Shahreza Branch

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The main purpose of the present study was to agricultural education pathology in Payam-e-Noor University (PNU) of Shahreza Branch. Research method was qualitative and the population included four groups i.e. planning personnel, university instructors, university students and graduates in 2012-2013 academic years. The samples were 58 people including 39 students, 7 instructors, 6 planning personnel and 7 graduates. The data was gathered by semi-structured interviews. To determine the credibility and trustworthy of the questions and to achieve impartial and transferable results (transferability of data), the methods of continuous contacts of researcher to environment and the subject, the adequacy of the references, and triangulation were used. The data were analyzed based on a content analysis qualitative method. The results of the study showed that the most important difficulties and obstacles in agricultural education in PNU, Shahreza Branch were the irrelevance of teaching material to agriculture discipline and students’ need, the over-content books in comparison to other universities, ignoring practical teaching and executing methods compatible with agriculture, low level of learning, lack of laboratory and related facilities, incompatibility of test with the content of the course, ignoring frequent and continuous tests, some tests are not comprehensive. Cases such as use appropriate faculty major of Study with course and with higher levels of education and teaching experience, reform and revision of textbooks be free of mistakes content and print, correcting and revision questions and answers before holding the test and the allocations part of scores to operational tests and activities of student were some solutions to solve the mentioned difficulties and improve teaching agriculture.

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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 47, Issue 4
April 2017
Pages 929-941

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