A GUIDE TO ASSESS EXCELLENCE IN INSTITUTIONS WITH VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Abstract

A naturalistic study of institutional - level factors which contribute to excellence in a national pool of institutions offering exemplary vocational education programs served as the basis for the development of a quantitative guide to assess excellence. This could assist in the empowerment of agricultural educators to make programmatic improvement in agricultural education programs and in the institutions in which they exist. This paper describes the process used in the creation and testing of a quantitative instrument developed from a qualitative study of the interpretive research paradigm.