Effect of Educational Factors on Academic Burnout of Agricultural Engineering Students

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Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Studies in Higher Education, Institute for Research & Planning In Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of educational factors on academic burnout of agricultural engineering students. The statistical population included 6352 agriculture students at Public Universities of Iran. In this study, multi-stage sampling was used. The number of students at selected Universities was 6352, and according to Cochran Formula, 247 students were selected. Academic burnout questionnaire (revised by Bresó et al.) and researcher-made questionnaire were used for data collection. After confirming the reliability and validity of questionnaire and information gathering, data was analyzed by SPSS software. The findings showed that there were significant differences among students regarding the dimensions of academic burnout (by gender and residence). There were negative and significant correlations between educational factors and the dimensions of academic burnout, which said with the increase of students' satisfaction toward each educational factor, students' academic burnout decrease. Finally, according to regression coefficients, educational content has the most effect on academic exhaustion and academic uninterested and teaching method has the most effect on academic inefficacy. Updating agricultural education programs was among suggestions of this study.

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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 49, Issue 1
February 2018
Pages 151-163

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