Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: D07700
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Full dissertation available online at:
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0049760/00001, Executive summary of doctoral dissertation, Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, University of Florida, Gainesville. 5 pages.
2 pages., Research summary via online from the North American Association for Environmental Education., Researchers interviewed 11 environmental or science journalism educators from four-year institutions and identified four common challenges: (1) keeping up with technology, (2) student interest, (3) environmental advocacy among students; and (4) lack of potential careers in the field. They suggested pre-requisites.
Researchers addressed an issue in teaching scientific communication. Surveys and interviews indicated that a disconnect existed between what instructors expected of their students in writing laboratory reports and what the stated learning outcomes were for their horticultural science courses. Researchers developed and tested a grading or analytic scoring rubric, observing positive results.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30399
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Paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09041
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Pages 24-35 in Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi, and Eric Morgan (editors), Environmental communication pedagogy and practice. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, England. 277 pages.
