Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06719
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AGRICOLA CAT 90939434; Contains Abstract and Table of Contents only, Blacksburg, VA : Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. vii, 113 leaves : ill., forms (Ph. D. dissertation; Educational Research and Evaluation), This study investigated a systematic process for improving the understanding or comprehensibility of the educational publications produced by the Cooperative Extension Service. A model of a publication development process based on learning principles was created. This study investigated the effectiveness of the model with Extension subject-matter specialists developing publications for 4-H youth. Specifically, this study was conducted in three parts: the model of the text-development process was taught to subject-matter specialists; the specialists in turn used the model to develop educational texts for 4-H youth; and finally comprehensibility testing of the text passages produced by the specialists with 4-H youth members and adult leaders was conducted. This study confirmed that the utilization of learning principles within the text-development process can improve the comprehensibility of subject matter information presented in Extension educational publications. (original)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07495
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AGRICOLA CAT 90939434; Table of contents, abstract, and "Developing Effective Publications", Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. 113 p. (Ph.D. dissertation).
Bokemeier, Janet L. (author), Maurer, Richard C. (author), and Associate Extension Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Department of Socioloy
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: C03920
Covert, Anita Miller (author), Hoopfer, Leah (author), Keith, Joanne (author), Nelson, Christin (author), and Nelson: Assistant Professor and Human Development Extension Specialist, Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University; Keith: Associate Professor and Human Development Extension Specialist, Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University; Hoopfer: Program Leader, Michigan 4-H Youth Program, Michigan State University; Covert: Research Associate, Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: C03928
Collins, Olivia P. (author / Doctoral student in Family Life Education and Consultation, College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS) and Doctoral student in Family Life Education and Consultation, College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04902