An Experimental Study to Analyse the Effectiveness of Programmed Instruction in Educating Agricultural Subject on Affective Domain of Extension Functionaries

An experimental study was conducted to explore the potentiality of Programmed Instruction (PI) as an educational method in bringing desirable changes in the affective domain of extension functionaries on new agriculture technology, using Solomon four group research design: before-after with three controls considering 120 respondents. The results revealed that, the PI was more effective at organisation sub-domain (51.00) followed by valuing (42.87), responding to phenomena (39.60), receiving phenomena (38.00) and internalising values (35.33). The overall effectiveness score of affective domain was 41.36 signifying that, the PI is an effective educational method.