Awareness and attitude of extension agents toward problem solving method
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Agricultural education plays an important role in developing agriculture and farmers. One of agricultural education principles is learner being active in any learning situation. Problem solving is considered as one of the active educational methods so the purpose of this research was to investigate awareness and attitude of extension agents about problem solving method and determines the effective factors on using this method. The population consisted of all Boushehr's jihad-e-keshavarzi'sextension agents(80 extension agents) and 60 of them were selected through simple random sampling. The face validity of the questionnaire was approved by a panel of expertsand a pilot study was conduct for reliability. According to t-test results the awareness and attitude of extension agents toward problem solving was low. In addition, there was no meaningful difference between the awareness of extension agents towards problem solving based on their educational levels. Affective factors on extension agentsattitude involved their awareness, number of read journals and their individual's jobbackground. Based on the results practical recommendations have been presented.
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