Vol. 3 (3) : May-June 2012 issue
Green Farming Vol. 3 (3) : 315-318 (May-June, 2012)
Designing of test to judge the knowledge level of organic cotton growers
P. PRASHANTH1*, M. JAGAN MOHAN REDDY2 and I. SREENIVASA RAO3
Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad – 500 030 (Andhra Pradesh)
Designation : 1Ph.D. Scholar *(prashanth897@gmail.com), 2Associate Professor, 3Professor & Head
Subject : Agriculture Extension Education
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Total Pages : 4
Received : 20 September 2011
Revised accepted : 03 May 2012
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Citation :
P. PRASHANTH, M. JAGAN MOHAN REDDY and I. SREENIVASA RAO. 2012. Designing of test to judge the knowledge level of organic cotton growers. Green Farming Vol. 3 (3) : 315-318 ; May-June, 2012
ABSTRACT
The knowledge test was developed to measure the knowledge of farmers on seventy three items of knowledge about organic farming in cotton were edited and selected from a large item pool collected through a pilot study based on standard criteria and in consultation with all the stakeholders of organic farming in cotton. After screening, fine tuning and editing based on the opinion of the concerned scientists 66 items were retained for the knowledge test. The 66 items were subjected to item analysis to screen some more items based on the opinion of the respondents other than the final sample and finally 45 items were taken for final knowledge test and administered on 30 respondents. To administer the knowledge test a respondent is given one mark for correct answer and zero mark for wrong answer. Based on the knowledge scores obtained both the organic and conventional respondents were grouped into 3 categories having low, medium and high knowledge by using class interval technique.
Key words :
Item analysis, knowledge test, organic cotton, organic farming, point biserial correlation, reliability, validity.
