Date of Award
Spring 3-28-2023
Document Type
Dissertation (799 registration)
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership
Department
Graduate Studies
Committee Chair
Andrew Burklund
Keywords
agricultural mechanics, aversion, desire, SBAE, laboratory
Abstract
Minnesota School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE) leaders have observed a resistance among SBAE teachers to accept positions that include numerous agricultural mechanics preps. This study proposes to identify the factors that predict an individual's desire to (or not to) deliver agricultural mechanics courses. All Minnesota SBAE teachers were surveyed in the fall of 2022 using a researcher-designed instrument which was tested for validity and reliability. A 76.69% response rate (N = 250) was achieved for the emailed survey. Demographic and inferential statistics were calculated for the observed responses with a multinomial logistic regression as the focal test to measure the proposed predictor variables and test the overall hypotheses. The results of the regression model were significant, χ2 (33) = 302.79, p < .001, suggesting that age, years of experience, gender, department structure, type of teacher training, agricultural mechanics teaching recency, agricultural mechanics experience, past experience, current conditions, self-efficacy, and support had a significant effect on the odds of observing a SBAE teacher selecting a different categorical desire to teach agricultural mechanics. McFadden's R-squared was calculated to examine the model fit; a resulting 0.50 indicated an excellent fit. Specifically, six predictor variables were found to be statistically significant at the p < .05 level. SBAE leaders and those providing professional development should make an effort to target agricultural mechanics pedagogical support and encouragement to young, female, inexperienced, and/or far-removed individuals in poor laboratory settings, and/or possessing low self-efficacy.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Thomas, "A Quantitative Study Exploring Predictor Variables Of Minnesota School-Based Agriculture Education Teachers' Desire To Deliver Agricultural Mechanics Courses" (2023). Dissertations, Theses, and Projects. 852.
https://red.mnstate.edu/thesis/852
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Other Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons, Secondary Education and Teaching Commons, Vocational Education Commons