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| Social skills Social skills refer to activities which are performed in a given social context. For example, interviewing people for information involve social skills. The effectiveness of interviewing people for information, does not only depend on the verbal fluency of an interviewer, but largely on how well the interviewer approaches the interviewee, how accurate the interviewer was in selecting an interviewee. It is not the content of the interview but how one conducts the interview. Examples of social skills include effective communication with farmers, good relation to the farmer when conducting an interview, understanding farmers indirect expressions, etc. Attitudes Attitudes are feelings one develops towards something. The feelings can be positive or negative. An individual who has positive attitude to work can derive happiness from his or her work, enjoys the job and is willing to do more, makes clients feel more attached, values the individual and services rendered. A person with negative attitudes to work does a job only as a means of livelihood, achieves no job satisfaction, has poor results and has clients who are unhappy with him or her. Attitudes influence job performance, education and training in agriculture should be geared to cultivating of positive attitudes to agricultural work. Assessment of Attitudes and Practical Skills Process Assessment: The processes or steps (sub-skills) involved in performing a task are observed and rated with marks or letter grades. In awarding marks or grading, the performance of the learner is judged by comparing with the indicator of acceptable performance. In judging, depending on the type of sub-skill, if learner performance matches with the indicator of acceptable performance a grade A is given, grade Bis awarded if performance is acceptable but below the indicator xii standard. Grade C is given if achieved performance is below the indicator and unacceptable. The three level grading system is adopted if the sub-skills are not crucial for successful performance of the whole task. If the sub-skills are crucial for achieving successful task performance, then a two level grading type is used. In such cases, an ‘A’ is awarded for successful performance and a Bis given for unsuccessful performance. Download 443.64 Kb. Share with your friends:
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