Specialized Knowledge Measurement of Technical Extension Staff and its Role in Their Professional Success

This research is about to measure specialized knowledge of agricultural extensiontechnical staff and finding out the role of this knowledge in their success. As a causecorrelation research, the statistical population consisted of 107 agricultural technicalextension staff in the Tehran Provincial Agricultural Organization. Out of that 98questionnaires were completed and returned to the researchers after few times followup. To handle this research, theoretical and field study were applied respectively toaccomplish the research goals. Research tool was a researcher made questionnairevalidated by an expert panel and its consistency was approved through calculating alphaCronbach’s coefficient as α=0.92. Results from applying multiple regression analysisindicated that; problem investigation and problem solving in rural areas, establishingand guiding rural youth clubs, using local leaders to train rural, monitoring optimumapplication of extension activities, extension staffs’ specialty, introduction to andtransferring new technology, organizing activities among local groups, application ofinstructional media, and extension training classes had positive role on professionalsuccess of extension technical staff. These factors could explain 72 % of the totalvariance of extension staff professional success. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis testshowed that level of education along with major of the extension staff had significanteffect on their technical success.