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Lifer, Charles William – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine how much personnel in an urban business would view agricultural films during their lunch hour; their reaction and how much they would learn. Employees of the home office of the Nationwide Insurance Company were the experimental group and employees of the regional office, the control group. The…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Business, Doctoral Dissertations, Females
Hutchison, John Elton – 1969
Prompted by difficulties in specialist recruitment and retention, this study sought to determine the kinds of role expectations held by Cooperative Extension Service (CES) agricultural and home economics specialists themselves, as well as by CES administrators, subject matter department heads, supervisors (district agents), and county Extension…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agricultural Education, Attitudes, Bibliographies
Asmar, Samir S. – 1966
A study was made in Wisconsin of knowledge gains by participants in two Cooperative Extension Service educational activities (soil management and cooking for many) organized and presented by the in-depth teaching approach, and of selected factors thought to have an effect on the amount of knowledge gained. Gains were categorized as low (1%-49%…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cooking Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations
Brisson, Robert Curtis – 1969
This study investigated the county Extension agent role in organizing community development, the direction and intensity of expectations held by district supervisors and presidents of local community development associations, and factors (sex, age, formal education, farm or nonfarm upbringing, previous role experience, communication behavior)…
Descriptors: Administrators, Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Bibliographies
Peabody, Fred J. – 1968
Using the critical incident method, this study sought to describe job requirements perceived as critical by Michigan Cooperative Extension agents, identify training needs, and determine possible differences in training needs and job requirements according to employment position and tenure. The research involved collecting 444 written descriptions…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Critical Incidents Method, Difficulty Level, Doctoral Dissertations
Sitaram, Kondavagil Suryanarayana – 1969
This study focused on whether radio increases the awareness level of the rural population in India, whether increases in awareness vary by the type of subject matter broadcast, and what the characteristics are (including media habits and community awareness) of the rural radio listeners. Ten villages in Hassan District, Mysore State, were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Agricultural Education, Citizenship, Cultural Education
Weick, Ray Kay – 1969
A study was made of relationships of personal value orientations to personal characteristics of Arizona Cooperative Extension Service (CES) professional staff members, their perceptions of certain CES organizational elements (legal, process, functional, structural, personnel), and the distribution of high value orientations. A preliminary…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Bibliographies, Correlation
