In-service education programs have provided the professional development level of companies' employers, in the high quality form. The applying of in-service education programs has been a key component of professional development process for staff agro-industry Company. The study is utilized experimental Solomon four group designs to determine the impact of in-service education programs on agro-...

A 10–year Content Analysis to Assess Research Theme Areas in Agricultural Education: Gap Analysis of Future Research Priorities in the Discipline. (December 2007) Leslie Dawn Jenkins Edgar, B.S., Utah State University; M.S., Utah State University Co–Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Tracy A. Rutherford Dr. Gary E. Briers The field of agricultural education relies on multiple research journals t...

Experiential learning has been an integral component of secondary agricultural education since the beginning of the program. The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 has been cited as landmark legislation which established vocational agriculture programs in public secondary schools in the United States. This legislation contained language which required that students have “directed or supervised practice i...

Biography John Wall originally trained as an agricultural scientist and later as a secondary school teacher. He is currently undertaking a Masters Degree in Public Health at the University of Wollongong. Since 1992 John has been involved in developing and implementing road safety programs initially as a road safety adviser with the Catholic Education Office in North West NSW and later as Road S...

the main purpose followed in the ongoing research was to investigate the role of the extension factors (experience of familiarity with agricultural extension services, participation of paddy farmers in extension - educational courses, their participation in farmer field school (ffs) programs, and their number of extension contacts regarding ipm) in the adoption of ipm technology among paddy far...

For this assessment, 66 agribusinesses and 61 associations provided usable data by the end of the data collection period (August 6, 1993). Major findings were that programming targeted to individual firms and associations as well as general programming that applies to multiple audiences are of high interest, i.e. (1) conferences, seminars, short courses, workshops, and meeting; (2) certificate ...