Construction of Knowledge Test to Measure Knowledge Level of Apple Growers of Arunachal Pradesh on Package of Practices of Apple
Bai Koyu *
School of Social Sciences, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, Central Agricultural University, Meghalaya, 793 103, India.
Rajkumar Josmee Singh
School of Social Sciences, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, Central Agricultural University, Meghalaya, 793 103, India.
L. Devarani
School of Social Sciences, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, Central Agricultural University, Meghalaya, 793 103, India.
Ram Singh
School of Social Sciences, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, Central Agricultural University, Meghalaya, 793 103, India.
L. Hemochandra
School of Social Sciences, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, Central Agricultural University, Meghalaya, 793 103, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The knowledge test was developed to measure the knowledge level of apple growers. 32 items were primarily fabricated on the basis of ratifying rational rather than root memorization and to classify the sound erudite apple growers from the ailing erudite ones. The scores obtained from sample respondents were exposed to item analysis, embracing of item difficulty index & item discrimination index. In the ultimate selection, the scale consisted of 22 items with difficulty index ranging from 30-80 and discrimination index ranging from 0.30 to 0.55. To check the reliability of knowledge test being developed Split-Half method was employed and it was found to be 0.701.
Keywords: Knowledge test, apple growers, difficulty index, discrimination index, reliability