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Determining Human Development Competency Training Needs of Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Professionals
Author(s) -
Hardman Alisha M.,
Denny Marina D.,
Story AlliGrace,
Denny Geoffrey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1111/fcsr.12390
Subject(s) - warrant , extension (predicate logic) , psychology , service (business) , medical education , rank (graph theory) , training (meteorology) , family and consumer science , marketing , knowledge management , business , medicine , computer science , mathematics education , physics , meteorology , programming language , mathematics , finance , combinatorics
Cooperative Extension Service (also known as Extension) agents may lack adequate content knowledge to meet the demands of the diverse programming in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) they are expected to deliver. This article reports on the findings from an assessment of FCS Extension personnel in Mississippi. Two surveys were administered to assess the perceived importance of FCS competencies and the perceived ability to perform them. A rank‐sum score was computed, which was used to determine the relative need for training on various Human Development competencies. Findings show that competencies related to child development, parenting, and family stress and crisis warrant training.