Sustainable agriculture and the perceptions of high school agriculture teachers in the North Central Region of the United States

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Perceptions of secondary school agriculture teachers regarding biomass production education in Iowa

“…Literature has shown this type of research design is justified because the objectives of the study sought to describe teachers' beliefs, perceptions, topics and methods of teaching a subject (Ary, Jacobs, & Razavieh, 2002;Lawver, 2009;Muma, 2006). Questionnaires have been used to gather information from the target population in this descriptive-correlational research (Dillman, 2007).…”

“…Many previous relevant studies were conducted by using the TRA as framework. Muma (2006) found that the choice of teaching methods by agriculture teachers is partly dependent on the extent to which sustainable agriculture is taught. LaVergne, Jones, Larke Jr and Elbert (2012) revealed that there were statistically significant differences in teachers' perceptions toward the benefits of diversity inclusion.…”

“…Feng's (2012) study indicated females accounted for approximately twenty-five percentage of the total agriculture teachers in Iowa. Furthermore, a study in 2006 by Muma (2006) indicated that sixteen percent of the agriculture teachers were female. This finding indicates that the gender distribution of respondents in this study generally followed similar gender distribution of agriculture teachers in recent studies.…”