Examining of the agriculture education program students’ basic skills level in agriculture

Abstract

This quantitative study aimed to investigate the level of basic skills in agriculture of students in Agricultural Education program, Department of Agricultural Education, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand. A set of questionnaires with co-efficient reliability of 0.874 were used for data collection. The sample group in this study consisted of 47 first year Agricultural Education students, KMITL. Obtained data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, and mean. Results of the study revealed the following: 1) Most of the informants (68.09%) were female, upper secondary school graduates (85.11%), Plant Production Technology students (46.81%) and their first-year grade point average range was 2.00-2.49. The informants gained knowledge about basis agricultural knowledge the highest level in terms of farm machinery (µ = 4.44) and the other 7 aspects were found at a high level and 2. The informants were developed on the basis of basic skills in agriculture at the highest level in terms of farm machinery (µ = 4.68) and mushroom production (µ = 4.25), the rest aspects were found at a high level.