Tool to Measure Attitude of Postgraduate Scholars towards Extension Service

Abstract

Extension is broadly divided into three major components namely extension education, extension work and extension service. Therefore, persons who want to work in various line departments of government extension agencies like Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Forestry, Fishery etc. are expected to build positive feeling towards extension service. It is therefore significant to know the attitude of postgraduate scholars towards extension service. Keeping this in view a standardized scale has been developed to measure the attitude of the postgraduate scholars towards extension service as one of the important components of extension. A summated (Likert) rating scale was used to develop scale. The process started with identifying the dimension, collection of items followed by relevancy and item analysis and checking the reliability and validity for precision and consistency of the results. A total of 24 statements were framed in which 11 statements were finally retained which has practical applicability in measuring the attitude towards extension service. The scale contains total eleven statements, out of which five are positive and six are negative. The developed scale was found highly reliable.