Abstract:
Improvement of the instructional process is an "in" phrase in today's colleges and universities. Students, administrators, alumni, and others are emphasizing the need to improve the quality of instruction in our institutions. Schools of agriculture are not spared from these expressed needs to improve the quality of their instruction. Gardner in 1971 , addressing a symposium on instruction held by the North Central Region Colleges of Agriculture stated, ". . . all of us here (faculty) are concerned about the caliber of instruction, and even more important, about the amount of learning that takes place in our colleges." Students also are expressing their feelings concerning poorly organized and ineffectively presented courses.
Keywords:
performance based instruction, improved teaching