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Download full textMCCORMICK, ROBERT W. – 1966
FIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WERE CONDUCTED DURING THE FALL AND WINTER OF 1965-66 AT AREA EXTENSION CENTERS ESTABLISHED BY THE OHIO COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE IN JANUARY 1965. AIMING MAINLY AT THE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY, SPECIALIZED EXTENSION AGENTS FOCUSED ON EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND OF SUCH AGRIBUSINESS…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Agricultural Production, Educational Objectives, Off Farm Agricultural Occupations
Flint, Bruce
This study focused on determining the levels of objectivity of procedures used by agents of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service to evaluate accomplishment of selected educational objectives. The population included 247 county agents who had developed and executed an educational program during 1965 and 16 selected administrative and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
Ahlschwede, Margrethe P. – 1970
Conducted in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this study investigated whether low income Negro homemakers would be more receptive to an information bulletin that reflects their way of life than to a bulletin that did not. Subjects (16 in the first phase and 29 in the second phase of the bulletin pretest) marked the booklet ("Moving to the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Blacks, Bulletins
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
Lambert, 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
West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Appalachian Center. – 1967
Present and possible future forms of West Virginia rural extension organization were examined in the light of modern societal change and complexity. Individual adjustment to a changing social and cultural environment was proposed as the aim of the future Extension service. These were among the implications of such an orientation: (1) with the aim…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Educational Objectives, Ethnic Groups, Organizational Change
Maturan, Eulalio G. – 1971
The 1970-1971 annual report of the Extension Service Program of Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines, treats the following projects: Mabinay Agricultural Extension, Mabinay Negrito Action-Research, Reforestation, and Livestock Dispersal. Also discussed are the Rural Publications Center and other extension services--a radio program,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Extension Education, Financial Support
Divita, Charles, Jr., Ed.; And Others – 1973
The Rural Community Assistance Consortium (RCAC) was established to increase member schools' ability to attract and maintain funded programs and qualified resource personnel to upgrade human and community resources in rural areas. The RCAC consists of 15 predominantly black land-grant colleges and Tuskegee Institute in 15 southern and border…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Community Resources, Community Services, Consortia
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
Peer reviewedAndrus, Len Hughes; Fenley, Mary D. – Journal of Medical Education, 1976
Describes a Family Nurse Practitioner Program that has effectively improved the distribution of primary health care manpower in rural areas. Program characteristics include selection of personnel from areas of need, decentralization of clinical and didactic training sites, competency-based portable curriculum, and circuit-riding institutionally…
Descriptors: External Degree Programs, Geographic Distribution, Higher Education, Medical Education
Peer reviewedTiwari, Ambika Prasad – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1975
A major objective of agricultural extension programs is the education of the farmer through literacy training or functional literacy programs. Functional literacy, understood as a process in which adults learn to learn, would enable farmers to participate in the process of agricultural development. (EC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Agricultural Education
New Frontiers in Education, 1976
The rural development program described here works toward integrating education with problems of the masses in Maharashtra, India. Seventeen graduates from six universities and a rural institute live in the villages and work in agricultural development and extension (providing supervision and demonstration) and in social education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Graduates, Community Development, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedPrasad, C. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1977
Extension education and its components (the methods and techniques of education and subject matter know-how) are defined and their interrelationships are analyzed. (EM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Definitions
Lovan, W. Robert – Training and Development Journal, 1976
Economic, social, and cultural improvements in the non-metropolitan (or rural) areas of the nation are discussed in relation to: The development of community leadership (especially among business trainers), the role of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the Land Grant Extension system, business interests, and the need for…
Descriptors: Business, Business Responsibility, Community Development, Community Involvement
