Presents rationale for having preservice agriculture education students served by agricultural education clubs or societies, rather than by Collegiate Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapters. He states that national and state vocational teacher organizations would not identify with irrelevant ceremonies, but rather with the students' future…

Questionnaires containing 114 professional competencies needed by beginning teacher educators in agricultural education were completed by recent and prospective doctoral graduates and by teacher educators in a study conducted at Iowa State University. From analysis of the ratings assigned to each competency, recommendations are made for doctoral…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between students' participation in Future Farmers of America (FFA) activities and their self-perceived personal development. Found that FFA contributes to its members' personal development as outlined by the purposes of the organization. (JOW)

A major inference from the results of this study involved the overall emphasis of the Future Farmers of America (FFA). FFA should continue to stress individual student participation locally to fulfill its aims and objectives. State and national activities should serve to build additional personal development of the advanced students and serve as…

This investigation focused on the importance of providing instruction (with minimal use of preparation time) on the Future Farmers of America (FFA) leadership development to beginning students. It was found that students whose teachers used the instructional packet developed in the study had a better attitude toward FFA. (SSH)