Analyzing the attitude of farmers toward educational-extensional courses in Isfahan province

ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this research is analyzing the attitude of farmers toward educational-extensional courses. The statistical society of this research is all of the farmers around villages of Zayandeh Rood River in Isfahan Province (N=96920) that 830 people were selected among them using random sampling and the sample size was determined based on Cochran formula. Data collection tool was a questionnaire that was completed by interviewing. Formal and content validity was approved based on the ideas of experts and its reliability was specified based on Cronbach Alfa (0.92-0.97). To analyze the results correlation coefficient, one sampling t-test, and regression and SPSS v.17 software was used. The result of studies show that studied farmers have positive attitude toward educational-extensional courses and result of multiple regression using step by step method showed that among studied variables five variables specify about 77% of variance changes of farmers’ attitude toward educational-extensional courses that are: the quality of educational-extensional courses, activity of extension office, cooperation of learners in planning, appropriateness of subjects with the needs of farmers, recognition of extender from problem of farmers.