1Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sundernagar District, Mandi, (HP)%. E-mail:dsyadavhpau@yahoo.com
2Department of Agril Econ, Extension Education and Rural Soc, College of Agriculture, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur, (HP)
3Department of Agril Extension, Janta Vedic Postgraduate College, Baraut, (UP)
A test was developed to measure the knowledge level of dairy farmwomen of Himachal Pradesh. A preliminary test of thirty knowledge items was initially administered to 48 farm women who were involved in dairy farming for item analysis. Finally, sixteen knowledge items were included in the final format of the knowledge test based on the difficulty index (20 to 90), discrimination index (0.19) and point-biserial correlation coefficient (0.238). This final knowledge test was administered to 72 farmwomen who were involved in dairy farming for assessing the reliability of the test. The reliability of the knowledge test was measured with the help of split-half method and Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 and reliability coefficients were found to be 0.82 and 0.81, respectively, which indicates that this knowledge test is quite reliable.
