農業推廣員在調查研究中參與情況和態度之探討

A Study of Participation and Attitudes toward Survey Research among Agricultural Extension Agents in Taiwan

董時叡(Shih-Jui Tung)

《農業推廣學報》 13期 (1997/12) Pp. 117-140

https://doi.org/10.29788/RAES.199712.0005

摘要

臺灣基層農會的推廣人員長久以來，不但扮演農業推廣教育者和行政工作執行者的角色，在協助農業研究上，也一直有相當的參與。本研究的目的即在了解這些推廣人員在一般農業調查中參與的情況和其對調查抱持的態度，並探索此二者間的關係。研究發現一般推廣人員有相當高的比率具有被調查和協助調查訪問的經驗，由推廣員親自擔任訪員的情況也頗多，更有許多情況是研究者直接將成堆問卷寄給推廣員，由其負責調查訪問事宜者。整體而言，基層農會的推廣人員高度參與農業調查工作，可能造成所謂的訪答偏誤並影響研究的品質。另外，由結構方程模式的分析發現，推廣員在調查中扮演的角色分愈重，對調查研究愈持負面的看法，是否研究者在調查過程中有所疏失，這是農業研究者應注意的。

關鍵字

農業推廣 ； 推廣員 ； 調查研究 ； 訪答偏誤

並列摘要

Extension agents of township-level Farmer's Association in Taiwan has for long not only been an agricultural extension educator and administrative affairs executor, but also a highly involved participant in agricultural research, particularly the survey research. This study is aimed at exploring the involvement of extension agents in agricultural survey research, and their attitudes toward survey as well. The relationship between involvement and attitudes toward survey research is examined afterwards.The findings reveal that considerable amount of respondents express experience of being surveyed and helping conduct the interview with regard to agricultural survey. Playing the role of an interviewer and even a survey conductor is also not uncommon. As a whole, the high participation of agricultural extension agents in research very likely has led to serious response bias which consequently might impact the research quality. Furthermore, based on the findings of structural equation modeling analysis, the higher the extension agents participated in survey research, the more they would hold negative attitudes toward survey. This issue deserves more attention and critical thinking from all agricultural researchers.

並列關鍵字

Agricultural Extension ； Extension Agents ； Survey Research ； Response Bias