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Measuring School-Based Agriculture Education Total Program Success: Classroom, Ffa, And Sae, Katie J. Shields
Measuring School-Based Agriculture Education Total Program Success: Classroom, Ffa, And Sae, Katie J. Shields
EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement
The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) is exploring options for determining effectiveness of career and technical eduction programs. The purpose of this study was to deteremine the metrics Tennessee agricultural education teachers perceived as indicators of excellent total programs – classroom instruction, FFA (student organization), and Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE). A Delphi was used to obtain a general consensus by a panel of 21 agriculture teacher experts. A 66.7% agreement rate was determined a priori to represent a general consensus. The panel identified one classroom, five FFA, and three SAE metrics to indicate total program excellence. Student pesticide certification was …