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Parents' Perception of and Attitude Toward Agricultural Education: The Case of the Lanao Del Norte Agricultural College
Abstract:
The main concern ofthis study was to find out and identify some factors associated with parents' perception of and attitude toward agricultural education program as a course.
The respondents' personal characteristics studied were age, educational attainment, occupation, farming experience, family size, and occupational aspiration. The socioeconomic characteristics studied were income, source of income, farm size, tenurial status, membership in organization, position held, length of membership, and frequency of attendance to meetings. These characteristics were correlated with their perception of and attitude toward agricultural education program, agricultural school, agriculture teacher, agricultural extension worker, communication media facilities, and employment opportunities of agriculture students.
The chi-square test, Cramer's V, and Spearman correlation tests were used to find out whether certain relationships existed between the variables. Range, frequency count, percentage, mean, and standard deviation were also used to analyze the data.
A total of 200 parents from 10 randomly selected villages in the municipality ofKaromatan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines were randomly selected as resp0J1dents. Prepared questionnaires were used to collect data.
Results showed that parents had a low perception of agricultural school, agriculture teacher, agricu ltural extension worker, and employment opportunities of agriculture graduates. Their income status was related to their perception of agriculture teacher and extension worker, while source of income and occupational aspiration "to work abroad" were related to their perception of communication media as channels of information about agricultural education. Aspiration "to manage a farm land" was related with their perception of agricultural education program.
Farming and teaching/other occupations, higher income, source of income (farming and others), and tenurial status of a non-member of an organization were related with attitude toward agricultural education program; occupation (farming and fishing), source of income (farming and others), and those whose tenurial status does not belong to either owners, lessee or share-tenancy, with agricultural school; occupation (farming) and low education, with agriculture teacher as source of information about agricultural education; low education and non-officer, with extension worker as source of information about agricultural education; higher income, farming, and teaching/others as source of income, and aspiration "to manage a farm land," with communication media facilities as channels of information and dissemination about agricultural education.
Higher income status and aspiration "to be in the teaching position" were related to parents' attitude toward employment opportunities of agriculture graduates.
A significant relation was found between parents' perception of and attitude toward agricultural education. Hence, the higher the perception level, the more favorable their attitude toward agricultural education.