The On-arm instruction component of the vocational agriculture curriculum in Thailand as perceived by students, teachers and administrators / by Nopakoon Siriwan
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Los Baños, Laguna : 1984. Cavite State University- Main Campus,Description: 204 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - text
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- 378 Si7 1984
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Thesis (Ph.D. - - Agricultural Education) University of the Philippines, College, Laguna.
Includes bibliographical references.
SIRIWAN, NOPAKOON, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, December, 1984. The On-farm Instruction Component of the Vocational Agriculture Curriculum in Thailand as Perceived by Students, Teachers and Administrators. Major Professor: Dr. Samuel T. Mancebo
This study aimed to assess the students' learning outcomes in knowledge and skills acquired from the three types of on-farm instructional program, the factors influencing the implementation of the on-farm instructional program, and the degree of involvement of responsibilities or activities of students as perceived by students, teachers and administrators who are involved in conducting the on-farm instructional program of vocational agriculture in Thailand.
The respondents of this study consisted of 406 students, 154 teachers and 127 administrators from the 16 sampled agricultural colleges throughout the country under the Department of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education, Thailand. The data were gathered through a structured questionnaire, and were analyzed by frequency counts, means, standard deviation, percentage, range, rank, t-test, chi-square test, analysis of variance and Scheffe'$ range test.
Of the three groups of respondents, students and teachers had moderate involvement in 6f responsibilities in conducting the on-farm instructional program while the administrators had higher ratings of involvement in most of those responsibilities. A11 respondents also perceived that the students’ knowledge and skills were best learned and most developed through the college demonstration farm, followed by the student experimental project and the supervised farming project.
There were some independent variables affecting the students’ perceived learning & knowledge and skills on the three types of on-farm instructional program, namely, college location, size of college farm and number of years of the college operation.
Furthermore, the external college factors (parental and community system, input system, credit system and marketing system), and the internal college factors (administrative support system, supervisory system, instructional system and project management system) significantly influenced most of the students’ perceived learning the knowledge and skills on the three types of on-farm instructional program.
The chi-square test indicated a significant relationship between the responsibilities of the three groups of respondents, and the degree of involvement of the external and internal college factors in the conduct of the on-farm instructional program. The study revealed certain factors which highly affected the implementation of the college demonstration farm, namely, inadequacy of tools and equipment and inadequate planning of the project. The student experimental project implementation was highly affected by inadequate fund or capital.
The lack of capital was considered by the three types of respondents to have highly influenced the supervised farming project.
Submitted to the University Library 01/07/1994 T-1438