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Influence of Gliricidia Sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp. and Natural Vegetative Hedgerows on Selected Soil Properties and Productivity of Corn (Zea mays L.) and Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek var. radiata)
Thesis Abstract:
The general objective of the study was to find out the knowledge competency level determinants of students in mango nursery and orchard management. The study was conceptualized to determine the association between the students’ personal factors, school factors, and teachers’ demographic characteristics with knowledge competency level.
The sampling population consisted of 75 agriculture students and seven teachers involved in mango nursery and orchard management. The study used descriptive and correlation analysis. Survey questionnaires and teacher-made test were the main data gathering tools substantiated with observation and personal interviews administered personally by researcher.
SPSS version 9.0 was used in the data analysis. Frequencies, mean, percentages, t-test, and Pearson correlation were employed in the statistical analysis.
The knowledge competency level of agriculture students was found to be generally low in mango nursery and orchard management.
The students’ personal factors such as age, year level, entrepreneurial quotient, and motivation by practical training as an element learning style were significantly and positively associated while the types of multiple intelligence and sex were found not significantly associated with knowledge competency level in mango nursery and orchard management.
The students’ perception of school factors such as the schedule of holding classes and practicum (early in the morning or late in the afternoon/fair weather), and the availability of the school administrators to the students were positively associated with knowledge competency level. The availability of computers and overhead projectors was negatively associated with knowledge competency level in mango nursery and orchard management because all (100%) of the agriculture secondary students except post-secondary students (4%) did not have computer education subjects and their teachers did not utilize these facilities in their classes. Moreover, students did not learn mango nursery and orchard management with computers and overhead projectors because teachers had limited transparencies and did not have any diskette and CD-ROM as package of information technology (POT) in mango production. Teachers mostly utilized chalkboards and employed practicum activities.
Teachers’ demographic characteristics were not significantly associated to knowledge competency level.