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- Title
Evaluation of Factors Affecting the Attitude of Female Agricultural Science Students using Censored Tobit Regression Model.
- Authors
Kidane, Tsion T.; Worth, Steven H.
- Abstract
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate what factors influenced the attitude of female high school agricultural science students towards Agricultural Education and Training (AET). More specifically, the study sought to determine whether the identified factors would have a positive or negative effect on the attitude of female agricultural science students towards AET. The research was organized in nested concurrent mixed sampling designs. The study area was KwaZulu-Natal, one of South Africa’s nine provinces. Ten agricultural schools were purposively selected. The sample population was identified using probability sampling and consisted of 210 female agricultural science students from the selected high schools. A survey was conducted using a pre-tested, structured interview schedule and questionnaires with both structured and unstructured questions. The collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics and the Censored Tobit Regression Model. The reliability coefficient result was found to be 0.8. The results showed that family size, family access to farming land, discussions about AET and the students’ mothers’ education had a significant and positive (P ≤ 0.05) effect on the attitude of female agricultural science students towards AET. The students’ fathers’ education had a significant and negative (P ≤ 0.05) effect on female students’ attitudes towards AET. Creating community and student awareness of agriculture and its importance, by using different means should be conducted. Identifying parents’ perceptions and the information they have towards their children’s education could help to regulate the students’ perceptions of their studies and future career prospects.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURAL education; SCIENCE student attitudes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; AWARENESS; TOBITS; DATA analysis
- Publication
Dirasat: Educational Sciences, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 4, p365
- ISSN
1026-3713
- Publication type
Article