Abstract:
he purpose of the study was to have an understanding about the usefulness of
agricultural news stories as perceived by the agricultural students. Besides,
attempts were made to determine the relationship between the selected
characteristics of the agricultural students and the usefulness of agricultural
news stories as perceived by them.
A structured interview schedule was prepared to collect data on the basis of
objectives and selected variables. Data were collected from randomly selected
125 agricultural students of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University during
February 10 to 5 March, 2008.
Co-efficient of correlation test was used to explore relationship between the
concerned variables. Among the respondents 13.6 percent belongs to the group
of less useful group, 55.2 percent were moderate, 20.0 percent in the group of
more useful group and the rest 11.2 percent respondents belongs to the group of
most useful group. Academic achievement, family education, family annual
income, social status and utilization of leisure period had no relationship with
the degree of usefulness of agricultural news stories as perceived by the
agricultural students, while newspaper reading habit and extent of newspaper
reading habit had positive relationship.
Among the respondents 16.8 percent of the agricultural students belonged to the
group of medium academic achievement, 36.8 percent stay in the group of high
academic achievement and 46.4 percent students belonged to very high
academic achievement group. Total 96 percent of the respondent agricultural
students' family belonged to high and very high family education.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND INFORMATION SYSTEM
