Issues Related to Assessing Listening Ability [microform] / Nancy A. Mead
- Bib ID:
- 5351944
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Mead, Nancy A
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED155759
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- [Washington, D.C.]] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978
- 18 p.
- Summary:
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Speech Communication Association (SCA) initiated a pilot study to test the feasibility of assessing speaking and listening skills. A pool of 56 items was developed and then field tested at four sites which represented a variety of national regions, of size and type of cities, and of racial and ethnic populations. There were significant differences between the responses of minority and nonminority students. A panel of speech communication experts hypothesized that minority students might have less specialized vocabulary knowledge, a lower tolerance for long materials perceived as boring, and less experience listening to the accents and speaking rates of white speakers. The results of the NAEP/SCA project suggest a clear need for further development and research in this area. In addition, three guidelines were developed for researchers in the area of listening ability: (1) focus on skills that are unique and central to listening, (2) use short, interesting listening stimuli, and (3) consider extraneous factors which might contribute to item bias; these suggestions are intended to aid researchers rather than act as a definitive guide. (JF) Primary type of information provided by report: Procedures (Feasibility Study).
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Toronto, Canada, March 1978).
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