Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange
Abstract
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\u27s time, adequacy of the vocational agriculture room, and identified or estimated number of training stations; (3) vocational agriculture instructors\u27 attitude toward off-farm programs including the instructor\u27 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\u27 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
