ASRB NET and ARS / SMS / STO recruitment · India · Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ICAR)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersHow new knowledge reaches farmers: extension principles, models and history, teaching and communication methods, diffusion and adoption, ICT, training, gender and evaluation.
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How our questions for ASRB NET and ARS / SMS / STO recruitment spread across the units of Agricultural Extension Management & Communication. Difficulty: 4 easy, 11 medium, 4 hard.
| Communication models and barriers | 4 | |
| Diffusion and adoption of innovations and adopter categories | 4 | |
| Extension models: training and visit, farmer field schools, pluralistic, market-led and public-private extension | 2 | |
| Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment: Bennett's hierarchy and the logframe | 2 | |
| Concepts, principles and philosophy of extension | 1 | |
| History of extension in the USA, Japan and India | 1 | |
| Early community development and intensive agricultural district programmes | 1 | |
| Extension teaching methods and audio-visual aids | 1 | |
| Programme planning and evaluation | 1 | |
| Capacity development and training | 1 | |
| Gender mainstreaming | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee (1957) recommended:
B. Democratic decentralisation through three-tier Panchayati Raj
The committee found weak people's participation in CDP and NES and recommended three-tier Panchayati Raj (village, block, district). The package programme is IADP (1960-61), the single line of command is a T&V feature, and district agencies describe ATMA.
Schramm's contribution that communication happens only where the experiences of source and receiver overlap is called the:
D. Field of experience
Schramm (1954) argued that shared meaning occurs in the overlap of the fields of experience. The gatekeeper is Westley and MacLean's, the two-step flow is Lazarsfeld's, and selective exposure is a receiver barrier.
In a knowledge test of 20 items (1 mark each), a group of farmers has a mean score of 14.6. What is the group's knowledge index?
B. 73 per cent
Knowledge index = score ÷ maximum × 100 = 14.6 / 20 × 100 = 73 per cent. 14.6 reads the raw score as a percentage; 27 per cent is the knowledge gap; 137 per cent inverts the ratio.
The syndicate method of training involves:
A. Small groups working on assigned tasks and reporting to the whole group
In the syndicate method, trainees are divided into small groups (syndicates) that work on assigned problems and present findings to the plenary. Shadowing is on-the-job training, acting roles is role play, and unstructured self-awareness groups are T-groups.
The Harvard Analytical Framework for gender analysis consists of:
A. An activity profile, an access and control profile and influencing factors
The Harvard framework has the activity profile, the access and control profile and influencing factors. The fourth is Longwe's framework, the second Kabeer's social relations approach, the third the WEAI domains.
Propensity score matching differs from a randomised controlled trial mainly because matching:
D. Controls only for observed characteristics, not unobserved ones
Matching pairs participants with similar non-participants on observed traits; unobserved differences such as motivation remain. Randomisation balances both observed and unobserved traits on average.
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