Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 29, No 5 (2016)

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Attitude of students towards home science degree programme

JITUMONI NEOG, D. A. NITHYASHREE

Abstract


The study was conducted at College of Rural Home Science, Dharwad under the University of AgriculturalSciences, Dharwad, Karnataka. The ex-post facto research design was adopted in order to study the attitude of studentstowards Home Science degree programme. There are totally 411 students enrolled in undergraduate, post – graduate and Ph.D programme during the academic year 2014-15. Out of 411 students, the data were collected from 407 students as theremaining four students viz., two students from UG, one from PG and one from Ph. D. were out of the headquarter for oneor the other reason. For measuring the attitude of the students, a scale was developed in order to measure the attitude of thestudents towards Home Science degree programme. Eighteen statements were selected out of 26 statements for which thevalidity was identified with the help content validity method and reliability was determined by split half method which wasfound to be 0.78. Findings revealed that among boys, 72.58 per cent of them had favourable attitude followed by 24.19 percent had more favourable attitude and only 3.23 per cent of them had less favourable attitude. In case of girls, 62.32 per centhad favourable attitude followed by 37.39 per cent had more favourable attitude and only 0.29 per cent had less favourableattitude. There was no significant difference between the attitude of the boys and girls towards Home Science degreeprogramme. The attitude of the overall students towards Home Science degree programme was found that 71.01 percentstudents had favourable attitude while 28.25 per cent had more favourable attitude and only 0.74 per cent of them had lessfavourable attitude towards Home Science degree programme. It was found that age and father’s occupation was significantlycorrelated with the attitude of the students.

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