A test to measure knowledge of farmers about drip irrigation system

Abstract

A standardized test as defined by Noll (1957) is one "that has been carefully constructed by experts in light of acceptable objectives or purposes, procedures for administering, scoring and interpreting score are specified in detail so that no matter was given the test or where it may be given, the results should be comparable and norms or averages for different age or status have been pre determined". Keeping this definition in view, a standardized knowledge test on drip irrigation system was developed with the help of following techniques: Item selection : The content of the text consisted of questions called items. The important factors considered in collecting items for knowledge test was to determine and classify the objectives to be measured by it. Items were collected by referring to the relevant literature by consulting the scientists working in Agronomy, Horticulture and Farm