A Scale to Measure Attitude of Farmers towards Technological Demonstration

A scale was developed to measure the attitude of farmers towards technological demonstration based on Likert’s technique. A tentative list of 40 statements was drafted keeping in view the applicability of statements suited to the area of study. The statements collected were edited in the light of the informal criteria suggested by Edward and Kilpatrick. These statements were framed in such a way that they expressed the positive or negative attitude of the farmers. The score of each individual item on the scale was calculated by summing up the weights of the individual items. Finally, the scale consisted of 10 statements (7 positive and 3 negative) whose t value was greater than 2.0. Reliability was tested with 25 respondents and its value was 0.70 and validity of the scale was cross checked with the non-sample respondents and ‘t’ was found significant at five percent.