Bulletin No.
612
Document Type
Bulletin
Department
Department of Agricultural Education
Description
A questionnaire was designed to determine:
(1) the number of departments placing students in off-farm agricultural cooperative occupational experience programs including the number of students involved, type of occupational placement, how they were enrolled in the related classroom instruction;
(2) the school and community resources including the instructor's time, adequacy of the vocational agriculture room, and identified or estimated number of training stations;
(3) vocational agriculture instructors' attitude toward off-farm programs including the instructor' s opinion of the sufficiency of numbers for the program, their contacts with local agri-businessmen concerning training stations, their explanation of program to superintendent, principal, board, and businessmen, their use of local advisory groups, and their plans to start work in the off-farm agricultural occupations area;
(4) teacher' s evaluation of expressed student interest in off-farm agriculture occupations;
(5) the reaction of administrators and local school boards to teacher explanations of off-farm supervised occupational experience programs, and
(6) questions asked by or of the instructors.
Keywords
vocational agricultural education programs, agricultural vocationial interships
Pages
19
Publication Date
5-1973
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Leske, G. W., "Pilot Programs in Off-Farm Agricultural Occupations" (1973). Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011). 617.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/617