Pages 86-87 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of a thesis for the master of science degree in agricultural extension, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1961. 281 pages.
Pages 77-78 in Extension Circular 541, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1961, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Summary of a thesis for the master of science in public relations, American University, Washington, D.C. 1961. 106 pages.
Pages 54-55 in Review of Extension Research, January through December 1957. Summary of research for Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana. 1957. 7 pp.
Read, Hadley (author / Extension Editor, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1957-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00089
Notes:
A summary of this report (same title) appears in the Review of Extension Research - Extension Service Circular 518. (Document D08367)., Urbana, IL : Extension Editorial Office, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1957. 7 p.
11 pages., Via online journal., Visual communication allows the transmission of ideas and information more easily than written communication. Therefore, visual communication is used in different sectors (education, health, machinery, marketing, politics, environmental studies, musicology, science) to overcome language barriers and to effectively convey useful information. Nevertheless, the use of visual material to improve the comprehensibility of safety training in the workplace has been under-investigated, which is particularly true in the agricultural sector, despite its hazardousness and the high number of migrant farmworkers who might benefit from training provided by means of visual communication due to their often scarce knowledge of the local language. Combining graphic composition rules with a user-centred design (UCD) approach, this study aimed to develop visual safety training material based on migrant farmworkers’ needs to increase migrant trainees’ satisfaction in the training process. Focus groups were conducted with both trainers and migrant farmworkers to identify critical issues in existing safety training material and to discuss and evaluate different prototypes of the visual material developed by the authors. Significantly higher satisfaction was reported by migrants trained with the new material compared to a control group in a final training session (U = 152.50, z = −2.165, p = 0.030). Implications for the improvement of safety training for migrant farmworkers are discussed.
This newsletter article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- "International" file section - "OCIAC" file folder., Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Summary of findings reported in: Milton Munoz, "Understanding visual illiteracy: a study of comprehension of pictorial messages among farmers." Bulletin 43. Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison. February 1986.