Development of a Standardized Knowledge Test for Measuring Knowledge Level of Dairy Farmers about Improved Dairy Husbandry Practices

Knowledge is one of the most crucial inputs for development because everything we do depends upon knowledge. Keeping the importance in assessing knowledge of clietele in the field of Extension Education, an attempt has been made to develop a knowledge test for measuring knowledge level of dairy farmers about improved dairy husbandry practices in Rajasthan state.. In developing this test, the scientific procedure was adopted with due care i.e. Collection of items, jury opinion and the collected items were analysed through item difficulty index, Discrimination index (E_1/3), Biserial correlations(rbis). Finally reliability and validity of the test was also measured which contained 50 items related to dairy husbandry practices. The developed knowledge test was administered to the selected 300 respondents selected for the study. With the using of this test it was found that majority of the respondents had medium level of knowledge (72.33%) followed by high (15.00%) and low knowledge (12.67%) about improved dairy husbandry practices.