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المستخلص SUMMARY AND RECOMMIND Agricultural Extension is consi ered one of the most important existing organization in t e agricultural sector because it most important objective is creating a group of behavioural changes for most peopl through the extension educational process in which the exten ion agent is the change agent. Because of the importance of the extension agents’ role, the extension organization must develops his knowledge and skills through organizing training cources for developing any defficiency occaring in his performance. Taking in consideration that trainers is the corner stone in the training process, where any deficiency in their abilities, capabilites, and performance will affect undoubtedly the general training level and realizing its desired objectives. For that, the training adminstration should card about choosing the trainers according to some agreed upon criteria to guarentee the success of training process, Consiquently, it became a must to determine the most important of these criteria from both the points of view of training experts and extension agents for reaching a list which could be utilized in chossing efficient trainers. from that and due to the lack of studies in that field this present study was carried aiming to relizing the following objectives: 1. Determining the characterstics of the successful extension trainers from both the points of view of extension experts and extension agents and the degree of thier agreement about such characteristice. 2. Determing the opinion of extension agents about the esxestince of these charactrics for those trainers of the sutdid training cource. .u__ ~ 3. Deducting the most important criteria utilized 1n choosing extension trainers in A.R.E. Five assumption were set up for realizing the objectives of determining differaces in the opinion of both extension experts and ext.Lns Lon agents about the most important characteristics of the successful extension trainers. This study was carried out in the 4 governertes of Domietta, Dakahlia, Beni-Swief and El-Menia representing all A.R.E. training governerotes in which studied process was executed among governerotes. 8 destricts were chossen from these 4 governerotes at a rate of 2 districts from each --~-------------------------- ------------------- -2- governerotes. This studied extension agents in the 4 governerotes of the study amounted is 945 ones. Date was collected from all the 8 randomly choosen districts of the 4 studied governerotes who amountedto 208 extension agents represinting 22% of their population and about only 8.05% of the total extension agents attending this training cource in the 11 governerotes. Also 17 extension experts were chossen who 10 for them were been qualified academic personnal having Ph.D in agricultural extension and 7 of them were executive personnal from well experienced at least for 10 years in extension training from the general administration of training. Data was collected from the extension experts during November and December 1991 and collected from the sample of extension agents during May 1992 through 2 seperate designed and tested queetionnaires. The experts and the extension questionnaires included information about the most important characterstics of successful extension trainer under five main grou~s of characterstics which were: Knowledge and skills characterstics including 5 ones, leadership characterstics including 8 ones, communication characterstics including 12 ones, personal characterstics including 10 ones and bodial and feature1 characterstics including 3 ones. That made the total characterstics amounting to 38 ones. After collecting data, it was treated quantitatively in which the importance of characterstics and their existance were given degrees on the premention 3 degrees seals equal to 3,2 and 1 respectively. In presenting and analyzing data, tabulation, frequencees, percentages and I Z I test statistical criteria and techniques were utilized. The most important results of the study would be summerized under the following major 4 findings: 1. First: Extension experts openion about characteristics of successful extension trainers: Most of the experts agreed upon the importance group of characteristics with percentages ranging 76.0% to 94.0%. of a from The experts agree with 24 characteristics among 38 characteristics that is very important. 2. Second: Extensiopagents opinion about characteristics of successful exteasion trainer: The vast majority of the trainees agreed upon with ranging -3- from 76.0% to characteristics. 92.0% the importance of some The extension agents agree with 33 characteristics. 3. Third: Rilated to difference in both extension. experts and agents about the importance of the characteristics of extension trainer: Both the experts and extension agents was an agreement between the two studied l categories about 27 characteristics for the successful extension trainer. 4. Fourth: Related to trainees of these characeristics for opinion about the existance the sudied training cource trainees: The majority of the trainees agreed upon that the present of studied course trainers have completely the six following characteristics which are: Corectness of senses, correctness of the body and its vitality, good looknes and appearance, enthusiasm, self control and humbleness. RECOMMINDATIONS In the light of this research results: 1. The care of the responsible bodies about extension training with including the demonstration side, practical training and field visits in the future extension training cources and with carsing about elongating the period of these training cources to a more siutable period. 2. Taking in consideration the personal opinion of the extension agents when nominating them for attending the training cources, informing them with the content of the training course before the course with a suitable time for guaranteeing more ~nifiting and knowledge about the suitability of the courses subjects for their objectives and needs. 3. The care of responsible bodies about extension trai,ning in choosing the trainers having the maximum possible number of cbaracteristics of the successful extension trainer. 4. Trying to develop most of these characteristics for potential extension trainers specially the new persons through continnous and serious training courses to be ’held for those potential trainer |