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Problems in soil conservation are becoming increasingly important to the farmers of Virginia, West Virginia, and the nation. Much valuable material is available on the subject, but only a small part of it is suitable for use in vocational classes. There is a definite need for selection and organization of material in this field. This study has been made with the following objectives: 1. To develop reference material on Engineering unite in Soil Conservation for the use of boys in vocational agriculture classes. 2. To develope a job analysis and a list of references on these Engineering unite to·be used by teachers of Vocational Agriculture. / M.S.

What should be the content of a course in Soil Management in Vocational Agriculture in the high schools of Virginia? The proposed problem is to make a study of the present practices and the organization of the content of teaching units in Soil Management on the secondary school level. / Master of Science

The primary objectives of this study were to answer the following questions: Do the high school supervised occupational experience programs of vocational agriculture students contribute to establishment in an occupation? Do the perceptions of the supervised occupational experience programs held by former students relate to their supervised occupational experience programs? The population selected for this study consisted of former Virginia production agriculture students who participated in a 1976 study conducted by Martin McMillion and Martin Auville. A total of 185 former students constituted the population. A two-part questionnaire was used to collect data. Part I solicited information concerning establishment in occupations of the former students. Part II obtained the perceptions of the supervised occupational experience program held by the former students. One hundred fifty-three of the 185 former students were located. One hundred and three of the former students responded to the questionnaire. The independent variable, Farming Program Score, was derived in the McMillion and Auville study. The score consisted of a numerical value derived from several factors which indicated the quantity in supervised farming programs. Hypotheses concerning six measures of establishment in an occupation, the dependent variable, were tested. The statistical analyses used were chi-square and the Product-Moment Correlation. The major conclusions of this study were: (1) Over 93 percent of the former students were employed full time. (2) As the scope of the farming programs of the former students increased, the likelihood of their first and present job being in agriculture. (3) The yearly income of the former students who had farming programs that were large in scope were higher than the yearly incomes of those who had farming programs small in scope. (4) No relationships were found between the scope of the farming programs and the job stability nor between the scope of the farming programs and years of education. (5) Nearly 100 percent of the former students had positive perceptions of the supervised occupational experience program. Vocational agriculture students should be encouraged to increase the scopes of their supervised occupational experience programs each year of their enrollment. / Ed. D.

The major purpose of this study was to determine the seriousness of specific student misbehaviors as perceived by vocational agriculture teachers. The secondary purpose was to determine if differences exist among groups of vocational agriculture teachers based on selected demographic and situational variables with regard to the seriousness of student misbehaviors. The population for this study was composed of 12,726 vocational agriculture teachers as listed in the 1981 Agriculture Teachers' Directory. A sample of 604 teachers was selected for inclusion in this study. The instrument used to collect data contained demographic and situational information with a five point Likert-type scale to measure the specific student misbehaviors. Useable returns from 437 teachers represented 72.02 percent of the sample. The statistical techniques used to analyze the data were factor analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, analysis of variance, Pearson product-moment correlation, and the Scheffé post hoc multiple comparisons test. The major conclusions of this study were: 1. Those misbehaviors which were rated the most serious to vocational agriculture teachers were generally attitudinal in nature, i.e. ambivalence, clowning/foolish behavior, etc. Those misbehaviors which might be considered to be severe in nature, i.e. rape, homicides, etc., were not a serious problem for vocational agriculture teachers. 2. Senior high school teachers of vocational agriculture perceive a less serious student attitudinal problem than combination junior-senior high school vocational agriculture teachers. 3. Teachers in schools of over 2000 enrolled and teachers in Region 1 of the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers' Association perceived use of drugs to be more serious than teachers in Region 4 and teachers in schools with enrollments of less than 2000. Studies of this nature should be conducted across service areas of vocational education to determine the seriousness of student misbehaviors in each respective area. Studies of this nature should also be conducted outside of vocational education to determine similarities and differences from vocational agriculture teachers in regard to the seriousness of student misbehaviors. / Ed. D.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 L485 / Master of Science / Education

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. School of Human Sciences. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

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