Samuel W. Johnson, professor of Agricultural Chemistry in Yale University from 1856 to 1896, was the guiding spirit in the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in America. He was the director of the Connecticut Station from 1877 until his retirement in 1900, and was the outstanding agricultural chemist of this country throughout the latter half of the past century. His name is stil...

The purpose of the study was to determine if the delivery of an integrated agriculture and science curriculum to Agricultural Education MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) pre-service teachers increased their desire and ability to integrate their own curriculum and collaborate with other teachers once they started teaching, and to identify social and cultural barriers in existence between secondar...

The development of critical thinking skills in agricultural audiences has been identified as an important need. While several studies have examined the effect of teacher delivery methods that foster higher order thinking, levels of cognition, and critical thinking in agricultural education, few studies have addressed delivery methods fostering critical thinking in agricultural distance educatio...

Historically, one of the most constant features of America’s high schools is the structure of the school day. However, in the 1990s, “The most visible and perhaps significant change in the organization of the high school is the block schedule” (Cawelti, 1997, p. 41). There have been conflicting results regarding the effects of block scheduling on student achievement. Researchers in agricultural...

The purpose of this study was to test an alternative method for facilitating communication between student teachers and university supervisors. The study was guided by two research questions and three hypotheses and used two quasi-experimental research designs along with focus group interviews to test the hypotheses. Results indicated that the Iowa Communications Network (ICN) was an effective ...

I n s t i t u t i o n s o f h i g h e r l e a r n i n g i n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s h a v e b e e n invo l ved i n i n te rna t i ona l ag r i cu l t u ra l ac t i v i t i es f o r decades . The p r i mary ob jec t i ve o f t he i r I nvo l vemen t has been to fos te r t he deve lopmen t o f a g r i c u l t u r e a n d i m p r o v e t h e c o n d i t i o n o f r u r a l l i f e i n d e v ...

BACKGROUND Brunei started implementing its two main reformed teacher education programs, MTeach and MEd, in 2009. The reasons for these innovations included upgrading the standard of teacher training, increasing teaching effectiveness, and improving the quality of education in the country. The purpose of this study was to determine how student teachers coped with and sought help on the challeng...