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2. Exploring beyond the obvious: Social skills needed for agricultural communication baccalaureate graduates
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Leal, Arthur (author), Telg, Ricky W. (author), Rumble, Joy N. (author), Stedman, Nicole LaMee Perez (author), Treise, Debbie M. (author), and Universit of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Florida Association for Communication Excellence
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 15 Document Number: D10428
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 103(2)
- Notes:
- 22 pages., Via online journal., This national study sought to expand on current research to identify the importance of and graduates’ ability to perform selected social skills to aid in curricula evaluation and small program development. Using three evaluation groups – agricultural communication graduates, communication industry professionals, and agricultural communication faculty members – 193 individuals responded to the online survey. The most important social skills were those associated with having work values and transitioning into an organization to be a productive member in the workplace. Graduates placed a higher importance on social skills than the other two evaluation groups. All three evaluation groups showed some agreement on graduates’ highest ability to perform several social skills: The ability to be trustworthy, trained, reliable, professional, dedicated, and behave ethically were assigned the highest mean ability. A significant difference was found with the ability graduates afforded themselves in having common sense, being professional, and encompassing maturity versus the other two evaluation groups. Recommendations included incorporating and identifying social skills into instruction for students. Group work, presentations, internships, and student organizations were proposed as opportunities for social skill attainment. Agricultural leadership principles, oral communication, and professional development courses were recommended for new and developing agricultural communication programs that could serve to incorporate the most important social skills. Faculty members could benefit from research that can identify more effective measures to evaluate social skill attainment. Recommendations for future research included a similar assessment with technical skills and for other elements of the Agricultural Communication Program System Model to be assessed.
3. ICT Leadership Education for Agricultural Extension in Sri Lanka: Assessing a Technology Stewardship Training Program
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gow, Gordon (author), Dissanayeke, Uvasara (author), Jayathilake, Chandana K (author), Kumarasinghe, Isuri (author), Ariyawanshe, Kumudu (author), and Rathnayake, Sanduni (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Barbados: The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, West Indies
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12390
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Education and Development using ICT
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 16 (1)
- Notes:
- 19 pages., This article reports on a technology stewardship training program to promote ICT leadership development with agricultural extension practitioners in Sri Lanka. Researchers used a multi-method approach with a single embedded case study. Data were collected using a pre-course survey, formal course evaluation, classroom observation, and semi-structured interviews with participants. Kirkpatrick's four-level evaluation model was used to structure analysis of the results. Findings from this study show a positive response to technology stewardship training among agricultural extension practitioners in the course, that learning objectives of the course are achievable when offered as an in-service training program, that self-confidence with ICT is improved, and that some participants applied their learning in a post-course activity. Results from the study also raise a number of considerations for future course design in order to better support digital leadership development in practice. Technology stewardship training shows promise as a form of ICT leadership education for agricultural communities of practice in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. This article contributes to a better understanding of the role of social learning among communities of practice in agricultural extension services, and in contributing to effective use of ICT for agriculture development more broadly.
4. Perceptions of the training needs of the newest members of the Extension family
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bruce, Jacklyn A. (author) and Anderson, Jessica (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06101
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 50(6) : 6RIB5
- Notes:
- 5 pages.