Effectiveness of Training Program, the Case of Modern Technology for farm Animal Care

 This study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of Modern Technology of Farm Animal Care (MTFAC) training program on Breeders' Knowledge Degree (BKD).Through achieving the following objectives 1) Identifying changes of BKD concerning Modern Technology (MT)as a resulted of the exposure to MTFAC, 2) Identifying the difference between the average of BKD before and after exposure to MTFAC, 3) Determining the relationship between the change in BKD and the studied breeder's characteristics (explanatory variables), 4) Determining the observed variation that explained by explanatory variables in the change in BKD and finally 5) Recognizing the organizational goodness of MTFAC as perceived by the studied breeders. A quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design was developed to achieve the research objectives. A purposive sample of 60 breeders who had participated in MTFAC in Matrouh governorate was selected to carry out this study. The data of this study were collected using personal interview questionnaire. Mean, weighted mean, frequency and percentage were utilized for descriptive purposes. While, T test, Pearson correlation, and step-wise regression were employed for hypothesis testing. SPSS software was utilized for data manipulation and analysis.
Findings of this research prevail that:
There was a significant difference regarding BKD between before and after the exposure to the program (P value = 0.01, t = 21.36), as the mean score of BKD improved from 62.56 to 75.30.
There was a significant positive correlation between the change in BKD and the explanatory variables i.e. the exposure for agricultural information resources, the contribution in the training activities, social and official participation, motivation to contribute in agricultural extension activities and BKD regarding MT, meanwhile, there was significant negative correlation at 0.01 with age and family size.
The reported R2 suggests that the explanatory variables explain 81.2 of the observed variation of the change in BKD as follows: 1) the exposure for agricultural information resources, 2) family size, 3) BKD regarding MT, 4) the contribution in the training activities and 5) age of proportion of 42.7 %, 27.4 %, 6.7 %, 2.1% and 2.3 % respectively.
Pertaining breeder's perception about the goodness of program organization, responses were classified into three categories i.e. poorly effective (20%), fairly effective (38.3%) and effective (41.7%) with a global average of 0.73. To sum up, the mentioned findings indicate that the program achieved its objectives and enhanced BKD regarding MT of farm animal care.