A scale to measure the attitude of KVK scientists towards work in rural area

Abstract

At present, KVK appears to be the most important institutional system at the district level for technological backstopping in agriculture and allied sectors. As the KVK has to work for the rural people and farming community of the whole district, one of the important factors for success of KVK is the attitude of its scientists towards working in rural area. Thus it is very important to study the attitude of the KVK scientists towards working in rural area. Keeping this in view, a scale has been developed to measure the attitude of KVK scientists towards working in rural area. Scale Product Method which combines the Thurston’s technique of equal appearing interval scale for selection of the items and Likert’s technique of summated rating was used to develop scale. The process started with identifying the aspect, collection of items followed by relevancy and item analysis and checking the reliability and validity for precision and consistency of the results. Total 25 statements were selected out of which 14 statements were finally retained in the scale for measuring the attitude of KVK scientists towards working in rural area. The developed scale was found reliable.