analyzing attitude of agricultural extension agents towards using icts in gilan province

the statistical population of this study was agricultural extension agents. sampling method was stratified random sampling and questionnaire used as research instrument, its validity achieved by a group of experts of icts and agricultural extension and education and reliability was 0.76 that was estimated by cronbach’s alpha. extension agents with scores lower than 47 considered in negative attitude group between 47-74 classified in neutral and more than 74 categorized in positive attitude group. the relationship between age and level of education with attitude towards icts was not significant but there was positive and significant relationship between attitude and using icts. the results of factor analysis showed that four factors (improving extension efficiency, environmental-organizational, quality of content and economic cost-effectiveness) explained 55.5 percent of total variance of attitude towards using icts in agricultural extension.