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Communication and comprehension: The report of an investigation, by statistical methods, of the effective communication of educative material and an assessment of the factors making for such communication, with special reference to broadcasting

London: Longmans (1967), xx, 212 pp.
"How effective is television as an educational medium and how useful are researches carried out to date in this field? — The answers to these two questions are to a large extent conditioned by the nature of the audience and of the variables, such as the orientation and the structure of a nation's general educational plan — In Britain, where educational radio has constantly been progressing, the need for such studies grows all the greater — Thus Dr. Trenaman's survey is of considerable importance, although it deals only with adults — The experiments carried out by the author determine the factors in televiewers which determine whether a programme is effective: understanding, knowledge, interests and attitude, as well as the factors in the programme itself (in this case TV programmes) which contribute to a positive message." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2322, topic code 010)