Identifying Innovative Agricultural Education Programs

Abstract

According to the National Research Agenda for Agricultural Education (Doerfert, 2011), research priority five builds the case for efficient and effective agricultural education programs. Priority five goes on to state our scientific focus should, “Define characteristics of effective agricultural education programs and teachers and the means to correctly access the current state of these characteristics” (p.10). One approach to achieving this goal is to identify and replicate sustainable innovative program designs.