A study on relationship of instructional skills and immediacy behaviour of teachers on teaching effectiveness of extension teaching in agricultural universities

Teaching has always been the core of human resource development and is one of the three important mandates of all agricultural universities besides Research and Extension. This study examines the perception of 210 post graduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) of Extension Education discipline of 10 northern agricultural universities towards instructional skills and immediacy behaviour of teachers who taught them post graduate courses. It was found that majority of the students (79.52%) categorized their teachers in medium category of instructional skills and majority of students perceived that teachers had medium category of verbal immediacy (63.80%) and nonverbal immediacy (71.90). It was found that verbal immediacy and non-verbal immediacy had significant positive relationship with teaching effectiveness at 1 per cent level of significance (p<0.01), however instructional skills had significant positive relationship with teaching effectiveness at 5 per cent level of significance (p<0.05).