Tajeri Moghadam Mahnaz, Abbasi Enayat, Khoshnodifar Zahra
Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Education & Agricultural Extension Department, Higher Educational Complex of Saravan, Saravan, Iran.
Heliyon. 2020 Sep 21;6(9):e04960. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04960. eCollection 2020 Sep.
Agricultural higher education is one of the important context in which students may be face with educational burnout during their studies due to their conditions, such as the nature of the field of study, lack of graduates' employment, and reduction in motivation. This research aimed to investigate the factors underpinning the student's academic burnout of Iranian agricultural higher education system. The research was a kind of descriptive-correlational that has done through a survey. The statistical population composed of all students at all educational levels in agricultural faculties of the Iranian state-run universities (N = 236,973). Accordingly, 386 people were selected using the Krejcie and Morgan's tables and stratified random sampling method with proportional to size. A researcher-made questionnaire with 104 questions arranged in six parts used for data collection. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha, average variance extracted (AVE) and composite reliability (CR). According to the results, the variables of high workload and achievement motivation were the most influential factors on academic burnout, respectively. This study's results can be a useful step for policymakers and planners in the agricultural higher education system to prevent student's academic burnout and remove obstacles to dynamic academic achievement.
农业高等教育是学生在学习期间可能因学习领域的性质、毕业生就业机会缺乏和学习动力下降等情况而面临教育倦怠的重要背景之一。本研究旨在调查伊朗农业高等教育系统中学生学业倦怠的影响因素。该研究是一种描述性相关研究，通过调查进行。统计总体由伊朗国立大学农业学院所有教育层次的所有学生组成（N = 236,973）。据此，使用克雷西和摩根表以及按比例分层随机抽样方法选取了386人。一份由研究者编制的包含104个问题、分为六个部分的问卷用于数据收集。通过计算克朗巴哈系数、平均提取方差（AVE）和组合信度（CR）来确认问卷的效度和信度。根据结果，高工作量和成就动机变量分别是对学业倦怠影响最大的因素。本研究结果可为农业高等教育系统的政策制定者和规划者预防学生学业倦怠以及消除动态学业成就障碍提供有益参考。
