The purpose of this study was to assess selected areas of safety instruction in agricultural mechanics conducted at agricultural teacher education programs across the United States. Overall, teacher educators believe their students are competent in safety. However, they also believe that many graduate with insufficient preparation in the area of…

This study was conducted to measure affective work competencies which will provide additional information for vocational educators to use in planning vocational training programs. Results indicated that certain affective work competencies are associated with background experience (like previous agricultural course enrollment) for students and…

This survey of 24 instructors of agricultural power and machinery attempted to determine (1) the status of agricultural mechanics programs for agricultural assistants in Nigerian schools of agriculture and (2) the possible future orientation of agricultural mechanics programs. (CH)

Identifies major problem areas of liability as related to educational setting, determines specific liability questions for these problem areas, and specifies teachers' knowledge of these liability questions. The problem areas studied were teachers' supervisory responsibilities, teachers' duties when using special material and equipment, corporal…

The technical needs of adults in agriculture have important implications for the planning and delivery of relevant instructional programs. There are also related implications for planning the preservice and inservice preparation programs for teachers of vocational agriculture who will be working with adults. (SSH)