Farmer training is a key strategy for building skills that lead to enhanced productivity of small-scale farmers' fields. This result hinges on farmers transferring the training to their fields. However, the factors that determine the subsequent transfer of training including those with mediating effects are not fully known. A study was conducted to assess the mediating role of perceived content validity on the association of farmers' motivation to implement acquired knowledge with actual training transfer outcomes from a random sample of 603 Ugandan farmers who had received four agricultural related trainings. Using Structural Equation Modelling, results indicated intrinsic motivation (β = 0.246; t = 2.991; p < 0.05) and perceived content validity (β = 0.325; t = 2.693; p < 0.05) to strongly influence training transfer. Intrinsic motivation predicted up to 45% of variance in farmers' perceptions about training design suitability. Perceived content validity mediated the relationship between intrinsic motivations to implement acquired knowledge and training transfer. In order to improve the transfer of learnt knowledge among smallholder farmers, trainers need to pay attention to pre-training efforts, such as adopting a criterion of assessment checklist for identifying highly motivated trainees, as mechanisms for obtaining internally motivated training participants.

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感知内容效度对乌干达中部小农动机和培训转移的中介作用

农民培训是培养能够提高小农田生产力的技能的关键战略。这一结果取决于农民将培训转移到他们的田地。然而，决定后续培训转移的因素，包括具有中介效应的因素，尚不完全清楚。进行了一项研究，以评估感知内容有效性对农民实施所学知识的动机与实际培训转移结果之间的中介作用，该研究随机抽取了 603 名接受过四次农业相关培训的乌干达农民样本。使用结构方程模型，结果表明内在动机（β  = 0.246；t  = 2.991；p  < 0.05）和感知内容效度( β  = 0.325; t  = 2.693; p  < 0.05) 强烈影响训练迁移。内在动机预测了农民对培训设计适用性的看法的 45% 的差异。感知内容效度介导了实施获得知识的内在动机与培训转移之间的关系。为了改善小农之间的知识转移，培训师需要注意培训前的工作，例如采用评估清单来识别积极性高的受训者，作为获得内部积极培训参与者的机制。