Designing a Model for Internship Course in Higher Agricultural Education System Using the Delphi Technique: Combining Academicians and Practitioner Viewpoints

International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development

مقاله 6، دوره 11، شماره 1، خرداد 2021، صفحه 79-98   

نوع مقاله: Research Article

نویسندگان

Zahra Korani¹؛ Kiumars Zarafshani^{* 2}؛ Amirhossein Alibaygi²؛ Seyedeh Maryam Hosseyni³

¹Ph.D. Student in Agricultural Extension and Education Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

²Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

³Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Innovations and Training, Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education, Tehran, Iran.

چکیده

Experts believe that a solution to avoid the inefficiency of university graduates, especially graduates in Agriculture, is to revise the practical courses, especially internships, and transform and amend them. Taking this point into account, this study aimed to design a model for the internship course in the Iranian Agriculture Higher Education using the Delphi technique. The mental basis of this study was Akker’s ten-phase model. The panel was composed of the university professors supervising agriculture internship courses (N=34) and the employers to whom the students referred for passing the course (N=63). The results from the perspective of employers and the university professors, after three Delphi rounds, determined items for ten components of internship courses, i.e., logic, objectives and goals, content, learning activities, the role of trainer, materials, and resources, classification, location, time, evaluation and appraisal, which were used as the basis for the development of an internship model.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Higher agricultural education؛ Internship؛ Delphi؛ Curriculum؛ Agricultural employers

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