Effects of a Recruitment Workshop on Selected Urban High School Students' Self-Efficacy and Attitudes toward Agriculture as a Subject, College Major, and Career

Autor/inn/en	Fraze, Lacee Brianne; Wingenbach, Gary; Rutherford, Tracy; Wolfskill, Lawrence A.
Titel	Effects of a Recruitment Workshop on Selected Urban High School Students' Self-Efficacy and Attitudes toward Agriculture as a Subject, College Major, and Career
Quelle	In: Journal of Agricultural Education, 52 (2011) 4, S.123-135 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-0541
DOI	10.5032/jae.2011.04123
Schlagwörter	Majors (Students); Urban Schools; Self Efficacy; Agricultural Education; Workshops; High School Students; Student Recruitment; Outreach Programs; Student Attitudes; Student Participation; Questionnaires; Occupational Aspiration; Attitude Change; Program Effectiveness; Participant Satisfaction; Career Guidance; Career Choice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Jobcoaching; Schülerverhalten; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Fragebogen; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Berufsorientierung
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to determine if selected high school students' participation in a summer agricultural communications workshop affected their self-efficacy and attitudes toward agriculture as a subject, college major, and/or as a career. Data were gathered from an accessible population (N = 145), from which a purposive sample (n = 94) was derived. Data were collected with researcher-developed questionnaires, adapted from Mitchell's (1993) study of Ohio State University minority students' knowledge, perceptions, and career aspirations related to agriculture. Results indicated that urban students' pre-workshop attitudes were positive toward agriculture as a subject, college major, and as a career, and were significantly more positive after participation in the summer agricultural communications workshops. Students may be more likely to study agriculture, pursue college majors in agriculture, and choose agricultural careers if they favorably viewed teachers' workshop participation and/or their friends successfully completing workshop tasks. Additional research should be conducted on the importance of teacher influence on a student's self-efficacy in agricultural science subjects. (Contains 6 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Association for Agricultural Education. P.O. Box 7607, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Raleigh, NC 27695. Web site: http://www.aaaeonline.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10