Attitude towards Audio Cassette Technology among the Students of Post Graduate Agricultural Colleges

The term “agricultural education” has been referred as a collective term for all education in agriculture, encompassing plant and animal sciences, engineering, economics and others. If, ACT is fully exploited for educational system in our country, it may fulfill all the challenges and demand of educational needs of ever growing population. It is fact that ACT may not be at par with the printed literature, but it may reduce the consumption of paper and pressure on our forest resources at considerable extent and hand in hand, it may give a new dimension in the educational system of India. To measure the attitude towards the use of audio cassette in agricultural higher education among the postgraduate students, a study was conducted during the year 2008–10. Altogether, 135 numbers of students studying in randomly selected two agricultural colleges in the state of Uttar Pradesh became the sample size for present study. Percentage, mean, standard deviation were reckoned with the collected data for drawing the results. It was found that 77.04 per cent of students were having favourable attitude towards use of ACT in teaching-learning situation. Out of twenty selected statements, “ACT will help to improve the oration capability in the subject” was rated as first with the mean score of 3.99.