Perception of Teachers regarding Adequacy of Extension Course Curriculum at P.G. level in Agricultural Universities of India

In India, Extension researches and teaching are being practiced by teachers and students in more than 61 State Agricultural Universities (SAU's), four Deemed to be Universities (DU's), three Central Agricultural Universities (CAU's) and four Central Universities (CU's) with Agriculture Faculty. The present study was conducted in universities of North zone having agriculture as a subject, which comprises of 23 universities. Ten universities having agriculture as a subject from North zone were selected randomly with all teachers of Extension Education discipline as the respondents for the present study. Therefore, a total of 66 teachers engaged in teaching of Extension Education discipline were the respondents of the present study. The descriptive research design was used and the quantitative information was collected through pre-tested structured questionnaire. Regarding perception of teachers with respect to the adequacy of Extension course curriculum at P.G. level, the findings revealed that majority of teachers ranked course content as first followed by course clarity. The teachers ranked ‘course load'in third place and ‘competency fulfillment'in last rank (fourth rank). Overall, maximum number of the teachers (40.90%) perceived that course curriculum has low adequacy followed by 39.39 per cent of teachers who perceived that course curriculum has medium adequacy. Only 19.71 per cent of teachers perceived that course curriculum has high adequacy.