Ramesh, P. (author), Raju, D. Thammi (author), Reddy, K.M. (author), Krishnan, P. (author), Biswas, Amit (author), Umamaheshwari, T. (author), and ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, India
Indian Statistical Institute, India
Fisheries College and Research Institute, India
Format:
Online journal article
Publication Date:
2019-04-27
Published:
India: Taylor & Francis
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10973
24 pages, via online journal, Purpose: The study aims at finding out relevance and knowledge levels of selected teaching competencies as perceived by educational administrators, faculty and students, in order to assess the training needs of faculty of agricultural universities.
Methodology: Relevance and knowledge levels were tested through a teaching competency questionnaire developed and run on 292 respondents fitting into administrator, faculty and student groups. Needs Assessment Model by Borich [1980. “A Needs Assessment Model for Conducting Follow-up Studies.” Journal of Teacher Education 31 (3): 39–42] is used to identify training needs.
Findings: Results indicate differences in perceptions among groups towards teaching competencies. Prioritized training needs were identified which provide the content and direction for the development of faculty in-service educational programmes.
Practical implications: Faculty of agricultural universities need periodic in-service training programmes in order to improve their teaching competencies so that they become effective and competent teachers in the present educational environment.
Theoretical implications: The statistically validated methodological framework provides for capturing the perception of all stakeholders on the teaching competencies among the faculty members of Agricultural Universities in India, and offers a scope for scaling up the study for similar educational setting in the region.
Originality/value: The perception of students and administrators was also considered along with the self-perception of faculty about the relevance and knowledge levels of teaching competencies.
Williams, E.C. (author / Department of Agricultural Education and Studies, Iowa State University, Ames)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07950
Notes:
abstracted form M.S. thesis, 1992; search through volume, In: Jacquelyn Deeds and Demetria Ford, eds. Summary of Research in Extension (1992-1993). Mississippi State, MS: Department of Agricultural Education and Experimental Statistics, Mississippi State University, July 1994. p. 131
Rogers, Everett M. (author), Beal, George M. (author), and Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Ohio State University.
Professor, Department of Economics and Sociology, Iowa State College.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1958-10
Published:
USA: American Marketing Association
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08230
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10689
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. PACER Project, Claude W. Gifford Collection. 20 pages., Requests clearance for a questionnaire for pretesting in connection with a national study, "Public knowledge and attitudes toward agriculture and food." The study is sponsored by a non-profit organization, Professional Agricultural Communications Editorial Research (PACER). PACER is formed by six national professional agricultural communicator organizations in cooperation with the Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Survey questionnaire provided.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10688
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. PACER Project., Claude W. Gifford Collection. 9 pages., Proposes which of two national public research projects will include specific kinds and topics of survey questions. The projects involve Professional Agricultural Communications Editorial Research (PACER) and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC).
Pilar, Ladislav (author), Kvasnickova, Lucie (author), Gresham, George (author), Polakova, Jana (author), Rojik, Stanislav (author), and Petkov, Rosen (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2018-09-30
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10283
via online journal, The amount of European farm acreage devoted to organic foods has been increasing each year over the past three decades, as farmers strive to meet consumer demand for these products. To understand what factors drive this demand, researchers have focused on the end customers' perception of organic food and their motivations to purchase it. The standard research methods are questionnaires and literature review; however, these tend to be expensive, time consuming, or involve work with secondary data. This paper compares 14 studies carried out using standard research methods with the results of a social network analysis based on 344,231 posts by 73,380 Instagram users. The result of the comparison shows that in the case of organic food, the characteristic of "healthy" is the most important one to customers, both based on questionnaire surveys and the social network analysis. Moreover, based on these two analyses, 4 key areas can be identified as factors that are important to customers buying organic food: (1) health consciousness, (2) ecological motives, (3) tasty and (4) hedonism. As the results indicate, social network analysis can be considered a method with a high potential for gaining a greater insight into customers' perceptions.
