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In recent years online education has become increasingly relevant. Due to the impact of COVID-19, now more than ever, educators are faced with the task of moving their material to an online format that is engaging to the learner. Traditionally, topics such as horse judging have been taught by in person lectures or through live demonstrations. Consequently, there are limited reliable resources online. The aim of this study is to determine what types of resources and materials horse judging instructors need. Participants involved with coaching or teaching horse judging were recruited through email Listservs and social media. A total of 121 adults representing 25 states have participated in an anonymous Qualtrics survey focusing on the usefulness of various horse judging topics using Likert scales to gauge interest. The majority of the respondents are from the Midwest region and are associated with local 4-H extension services and the National FFA Organization. Additionally, questions related to experience level and comfortability coaching and teaching certain classes were asked. Upon analysis of the data, the majority of respondents indicated each resource listed would be Very useful to Extremely useful : sample classes (94%), scoring (85%), rules and standards (83%), penalties and faults (83%), and basic horse knowledge (69%). The majority of respondents specified that an online judging contest would be valuable, with a median interest level of 8 and inner quartile range of 7 - 10 on a 10-point scale. We were also interested in determining the relationship between overall experience instructing and overall comfortability teaching various classes using the linear regression model. As expected, there is a significant linear relationship between experience level and overall comfortability (t = 11.28, p-value <0.0001). In conclusion, there is strong evidence that building more online resources would be beneficial to horse judging instructors, especially those with limited experience. These resources could be used to help instructors gain more knowledge, or instructors could assign the material to their students to help them learn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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