Level of Soft Skills among Under-graduate Students of Agriculture University Jodhpur
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2022-10-09
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Agriculture University, Jodhpur
Abstract
Soft skill is a personal attribute that supports situational awareness and
enhances an individual's ability to get a job done. The term soft skills are often used
as a synonym for people skills or emotional intelligence. Unlike hard skills, which
describe a person's technical ability to perform a specifically-defined task, soft skills
are broadly applicable across job titles and industries. It's often said that while hard
skills might get someone an interview, soft skills will help that person get (and keep)
the job.
The term soft skill covers a wide range of skills like teamwork, time
management, empathy, integrity and delegation.
Research study entitled “Level of Soft Skills among Under-graduate
Students of Agriculture University Jodhpur” was undertaken to study the level of soft
skill, know the opinion of the under-graduate students towards usefulness of soft
skills in teaching and learning and find out the association between dependent and
independent variables.
The study was conducted in three colleges of agriculture university of
Jodhpur (AUJ) with a sample size of 130 respondents. The students interviewed
personally by a well-structured interview schedule. The data were collected, tabulated
and interpreted using suitable statistical tools.
The profiles of the respondents revealed that majority of the students were
from rural background, father’s educations were from secondary level, and mother’s
education were from primary level. Most of them were educated from Hindi medium
school and were categorized under medium category of annual family income. The
respondents showed medium involvement in extra-curricular activities, daily basis use
of internet, use of computer applications on monthly basis, library use on daily basis,
ICAR services.
The study also revealed that majority of respondents possessed medium
level of soft skills and opinion of the under-graduate students towards usefulness of
soft skills in teaching and learning.
Native place, father’s education, mother’s education and academic
performance were found to be highly significant and Annual family income,
Involvement in extra-curricular activity, Medium of instruction at school, Internet
exposure, Computer exposure, Library exposure were non-significant with the level
soft skill among UG students.
Involvement in extra-curricular activity were found to be highly significant
and Native place, fathers education, mothers education, academic performance
Annual family income, Involvement in extra-curricular activity, Medium of
instruction at school, Internet exposure, Computer exposure, Library exposure were
non-significant with the level soft skill among UG students.
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Choudhary, Ravindra Singh 2022. Level of Soft Skills among Under-Graduate Students of Agriculture University, Jodhpur. M.Sc. Thesis, College of Agriculture, Agriculture University, Jodhpur