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Pandya, Dasharathrai Navnitrai – 1967
The major purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between selected personality characteristics and attitudes of male extension agents in Wisconsin, and their level of job performance. The relationships between selected background factors and the level of agent's job performance were also studied. Subjects were 79 male county agents…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Background, Evaluation, Extension Agents
Download full textLambert, Hubert E.; Carter, Cecil E., Jr. – 1969
This study was to determine the tasks 4-H project leaders performed, to secure leaders' and agents' opinions concerning the tasks that should be performed by 4-H project leaders, and to determine the opinions of 4-H project leaders and extension agents concerning the qualifications of 4-H project leaders to perform 55 selected tasks.…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Job Analysis, Leadership, Masters Theses
VanMeter, Earl Leroy – 1968
The purpose of this study was to clarify the administrative functions of the Kansas county extension director through the process of role analysis. Respondents included four groups: all Kansas county extension directors, professional co-workers, county agricultural extension council executive board members in the selected counties, and selected…
Descriptors: Administrators, Age Differences, Agricultural Personnel, Bibliographies
Tribble, Marie; And Others – 1971
Guidelines and procedures which Texas Agricultural Extension Service personnel may use in working with local people in planning and carrying out county programs are provided in this handbook. The program building process is based on the philosophy that people have both the desire and ability to plan and carry out educational programs. The handbook…
Descriptors: County Programs, Educational Programs, Extension Agents, Extension Education
Richardson, John G. – 1995
A research project was conducted to determine the methods of information delivery preferred by targeted clientele of extension offices in North Carolina, and what methods clients might prefer in the future. Eleven North Carolina Cooperative Extension agents representing all areas of the state cooperated in the study. The agents developed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Attitudes, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedChesterfield, Ray; Ruddle, Kenneth – Community Development Journal, 1976
An extension program sponsored by the Venezuelan government attempted to change a rural area's shifting cultivation system into one that produced cash crops. The program's failure was due in part to the lack of understanding on the part of the extension agents regarding the communities' traditional resource use systems. (LH)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agricultural Education, Change Agents, Community Programs
Awa, Njoku E. – 1976
A study was conducted to examine possible problems in the information dissemination of social aid programs for the poor. Two samples of 141 community leaders and 143 low-income families were selected from a New York county with a high percentage of households in relative poverty and a low percentage in relative affluence. Data gathered from the…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Community Leaders, Community Surveys, Diffusion
WOODARD, BRUCE H. – 1967
A QUESTIONNAIRE MAILED TO 98 AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA WITH PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IN AGRONOMY IN THEIR COUNTIES WAS USED TO COLLECT DATA ON THE AGENTS' PERCEPTION OF THE NATURE AND FREQUENCY OF PERFORMANCE BY DEALERS IN SOIL FERTILITY PROGRAMS, AGENTS' FEELINGS ABOUT DEALER PARTICIPATION, AND THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN AGENTS'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Supply Occupations, Attitudes, Extension Agents
Hong, Pi-Feng – 1970
Government agencies in Taiwan have carried out agricultural extension programs since 1910, with the assistance of Farmers' Associations. Programs have been expanded since 1953, and now include both general extension (subsidy programs) and educational extension. Comparison of personal characteristics of hsien (county) Farmers' Association…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Extension Agents, Government Employees, History
Akinbode, Isaac A.; Dorling, M. J. – 1969
This study analyzed data gathered in a Canada Land Inventory project in British Columbia; the purpose was to measure the degree of communication between farmers and the agricultural extension service by analyzing the nature and extent of contacts, and the relationship of the contacts to socioeconomic characteristics. The farmers tended to be an…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Extension Agents, Farmers, Income
Peer reviewedFradkin, G.; Macarov, D. – Community Development Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Dropouts, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Isinika, Aida – 1989
The case description of an adult education program in Tanzania contained in this document is part of a set that reflects a cooperative effort by adult educators to increase international understanding of various educational programs for adults in their societal context. A face sheet provides this information: name, organization, and address of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies, Extension Agents
Bonanno, Steven C.; And Others – 1988
A study was conducted to determine the major roles of county agricultural extension agents in the agricultural technology delivery system in the year 2000 as perceived by state directors of cooperative extension (N=67). Directors, of whom 52 returned usable survey forms, were asked to identify the five major roles that agricultural extension…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Extension Agents
Shearon, Ronald W. – 1969
This study analyzed variance in county extension chairmen's (CEC) conformity to an administrative performance leadership (APL) concept of their role. Relationships between APL and agent morale and performance, CEC attributes, and CEC relationships with agents, were assessed. Results were reexamined after adjusting for effects of sex, level of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Evaluation, Extension Agents, Factor Analysis
Lowry, Rhonwyn – 1969
A study was made to delineate the tasks which constitute the role expectations of the extension agent, the volunteer 4-H leader, and those of cooperative responsibility in relation to the 4-H program as perceived by the Georgia District agents and the State 4-H staff. A secondary purpose was to determine the degree of consensus among the Georgia…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Extension Agents, Investigations, Q Methodology
