www.tjprc.org editor@tjprc.org ASSESSING TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS IN EXTENSION EDUCATION DISCIPLINE THROUGH STUDENT RATINGS OF TEACHERS’ ATTRIBUTES IN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES OF NORTHERN INDIA GIRIJESH SINGH MAHRA 1 & S. K. KASHYAP 2 1 Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Communication, GBPUAT, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India 2 Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural Communication, GBPUAT, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India ABSTRACT The discipline ‘Extension Education’ has established itself as a profession and discipline with three important pillars: teaching, research and extension service. In the last two decades, the agricultural situation in India has witnessed a paradigm shift in the light of India’s signing the General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT) in 1994. Consequently the job market for extension trained professional today, now demand quite different competencies than were required in the 1960s, which in turn can be inculcated by diverse teaching methodologies and updated subject knowledge of teachers for ultimately achieving overall teaching effectiveness. Therefore, the attributes of teachers contributing towards teaching effectiveness becomes very important for achieving the same. This study examines the perception of 210 post graduate students (M. Sc. and Ph. D.) of Extension Education discipline of 10 northern agricultural universities towards teachers’ attributes of the teachers who taught them. Accordingly, teachers are categorized based on scores of attributes obtained through student ratings, then association between teachers’ attributes and overall teaching effectiveness is found. It is seen that 48.05% and 34.81% of students rating overall teaching effectiveness under high and medium category respectively with 17.14 % under low category. In addition, all attributes were found to be positively correlated with overall teaching effectiveness. In light of the findings, recommendations were formulated for post graduate teachers regarding their teaching attributes as perceived by students. KEYWORDS: Teaching Effectiveness, Extension Education & Teachers Attributes Received: Mar 24, 2019; Accepted: Apr 14, 2019; Published: May 04, 2019; Paper Id.: IJESRJUN20196 INTRODUCTION Extension Education has established itself as profession and discipline with three important components of teaching, research and service. Today in India, extension researches and teaching is being practiced by teachers and students in more than 61 State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), 4 Deemed to be Universities (DUs), 3 Central Agricultural Universities (CAUs) and 4 Central Universities (CUs) with Agriculture Faculty. The agricultural graduates up to the end of 1980 have found employment mainly in the State Departments of Agriculture. As public employment was available easily, static teaching methodologies fulfilled the need of students as well as employers, but when India signed General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT) in 1994, this our agriculture into a framework of global market. This moved extension, beyond production and towards market led extension and knowledge management, therefore demanding different skills on part of students for getting jobs. Now, Original Article International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) ISSN (P): 2249-6947; ISSN (E): 2249-8052 Vol. 9, Issue 3, Jun 2019, 37-44 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.