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Designing a Model for Internship Course in Higher Agricultural Education System Using the Delphi Technique: Combining Academicians and Practitioner Viewpoints

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  • Korani, Zahra
  • Zarafshani, Kiumars
  • Alibaygi, Amirhossein
  • Largani, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini

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Experts believe that a solution to avoid the inefficiency of university graduates, especially graduates in Agriculture, is to revise the practical courses, especially internships, and transform and amend them. Taking this point into account, this study aimed to design a model for the internship course in the Iranian Agriculture Higher Education using the Delphi technique. The mental basis of this study was Akker’s ten-phase model. The panel was composed of the university professors supervising agriculture internship courses (N=34) and the employers to whom the students referred for passing the course (N=63). The results from the perspective of employers and the university professors, after three Delphi rounds, determined items for ten components of internship courses, i.e., logic, objectives and goals, content, learning activities, the role of trainer, materials, and resources, classification, location, time, evaluation and appraisal, which were used as the basis for the development of an internship model.

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  • Korani, Zahra & Zarafshani, Kiumars & Alibaygi, Amirhossein & Largani, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini, 2021. "Designing a Model for Internship Course in Higher Agricultural Education System Using the Delphi Technique: Combining Academicians and Practitioner Viewpoints," International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development (IJAMAD), Iranian Association of Agricultural Economics, vol. 11(1), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ijamad:335148
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.335148
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    1. R. Wes Harrison & P. Lynn Kennedy, 1996. "A framework for implementing agribusiness internship programs," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 12(6), pages 561-568.
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