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  title info:
    title: Competencies, benefits and limitations for Master Gardener Coordinators
    sub title: a delphi technique involving county extension agents in Texas
  name:
    name part: Lockett, Landry
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Smith, James
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Boleman, Christopher T.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: This study sought to develop a list of best management competencies, benefits and limitations for Texas Cooperative Extension Agents who are Master Gardener Coordinators using a Delphi technique. The study utilized fifteen expert County Extension Agent Master Gardener Coordinators throughout the State of Texas as the expert Delphi panel. Three research questions were asked of the expert panel members. Those questions included: 1. What competencies do you need to be an efficient and effective Master Gardener Coordinator?, 2. What are the perceived benefits of being a Master Gardener Coordinator? and 3. What are the limiting factors (problems) of being a Master Gardener Coordinator? One hundred-twenty consolidated statements were generated by the panel in response to these questions. These statements were subsequently rated by the panel for their strength of agreement with each statement on a six-point Likert-type scale (6 = "Strongly Agree," 5 = "Agree," 4 = "Somewhat Agree," 3 = "Somewhat Disagree," 2 = "Disagree," and 1 = "Strongly Disagree"). Consensus was reached on 64 competencies needed by Master Gardener Coordinators, answering research question one. There were a total of 19 benefit statements regarding coordinating a Master Gardener program, in response to research question two. Two statements of limiting factors or problems associated with coordinating a Master Gardener Group achieved consensus associated with research question three. Categories of competencies needed included organizational leadership, systems leadership, organizational culture, personal skills and management skills. The panel placed an emphasis on "people" skills, positive attitude and management skills to be an effective Master Gardener Coordinator. Benefits of coordinating Master Gardeners included such items as expanding the reach of the County Extension Agent and increasing Extension's impact. Problems associated with coordinating Master Gardeners included increasing the County Extensi…
  note: by Landry Lockett.
  note: "Major Subject: Agricultural Education"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Nov. 2, 2007.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2007.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation).
  subject:
    topic: Major agricultural education
  subject:
    topic: Volunteer Coordination
  subject:
    topic: Volunteer
  subject:
    topic: Master Gardener
  subject:
    topic: Volunteer Administration
  subject:
    topic: Cooperative Extension
  subject:
    topic: Delphi
  subject:
    topic: Volunteerism
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5984
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 080215
    record change date: 20151108081545.0
    record identifier: in00002350751