Assessing Communication Education

Author : William G. Christ
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136689581

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Assessing Communication Education by William G. Christ Pdf

Designed as a handbook, this text provides media, speech (public speaking, interpersonal, small group, and organizational communication), and theatre educators with both the theoretical and practical ammunition to fight the assessment battles on their campuses. The philosophical implications of accountability are balanced with concrete, specific, and usable assessment strategies. Stressing student, faculty, course, program, department, and institutional assessment, this book's aim is to provide, in one place, information that will help diverse and complex communication programs face the growing challenges in assessment. The book is divided into three sections: background and foundational information for assessment; broad assessment strategies that apply to a variety of media, "speech," and theatre courses and programs; and context-specific assessment strategies. While covering a host of topics, it: * provides an overview of assessment and suggests how it might impact communication education, * discusses the elements of program assessment and how linkage of mission statements with outcomes can lead to strong, innovative programs, * compares and contrasts regional association requirements and presents a specific how-to strategy for writing outcome statements, * discusses teaching evaluation and argues that we need to identify the "what" of teaching before we try to measure the "how," * looks at creative ways for formative and summative course evaluation that starts with the creation of an explicit syllabus, * discusses the use of capstone courses as a way of evaluating not only their major but also how students have integrated their "total" educational experience, * suggests the variety of ways that interpersonal communication can be assessed and calls for future research that stresses the "knowledge" component of learning, * reports on a strategy for developing small group communication assessment measures, and * provides media, speech, and theatre faculty and administrators with the background, understanding and tools to build stonger programs and develop better courses and educational experiences for their students.

Author : William G. Christ
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000159301

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Assessing Media Education by William G. Christ Pdf

The chapters in this component of Assessing Media Education are valuable for those who need to know how to develop an assessment plan.

Author : Clare Latham,Ann Miles
Publisher : David Fulton Publishers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X006073618

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Assessing Communication by Clare Latham,Ann Miles Pdf

Assessing Communication describes and includes a practical assessment of functional communication in four parts. It will be of particular value to speech and language therapists and teachers working with pupils who have severe learning difficulties. It considers communication skills from the earliest interactions to the skills of children working within level one of the National Curriculum English. It will enable the reader to build a careful and detailed assessment of 'how' and 'what' a child is communicating and to assess a wide range of communication difficulties. A completed assessment will supply information to construct an individual, total communication system for each child, which can include sign, symbol and speech output devices. It will enable differing professionals to assess together using a shared framework and to then plan realistic support for an individual child. The assessments provided are photocopiable.

Author : William G. Christ
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136689574

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Assessing Communication Education by William G. Christ Pdf

Designed as a handbook, this text provides media, speech (public speaking, interpersonal, small group, and organizational communication), and theatre educators with both the theoretical and practical ammunition to fight the assessment battles on their campuses. The philosophical implications of accountability are balanced with concrete, specific, and usable assessment strategies. Stressing student, faculty, course, program, department, and institutional assessment, this book's aim is to provide, in one place, information that will help diverse and complex communication programs face the growing challenges in assessment. The book is divided into three sections: background and foundational information for assessment; broad assessment strategies that apply to a variety of media, "speech," and theatre courses and programs; and context-specific assessment strategies. While covering a host of topics, it: * provides an overview of assessment and suggests how it might impact communication education, * discusses the elements of program assessment and how linkage of mission statements with outcomes can lead to strong, innovative programs, * compares and contrasts regional association requirements and presents a specific how-to strategy for writing outcome statements, * discusses teaching evaluation and argues that we need to identify the "what" of teaching before we try to measure the "how," * looks at creative ways for formative and summative course evaluation that starts with the creation of an explicit syllabus, * discusses the use of capstone courses as a way of evaluating not only their major but also how students have integrated their "total" educational experience, * suggests the variety of ways that interpersonal communication can be assessed and calls for future research that stresses the "knowledge" component of learning, * reports on a strategy for developing small group communication assessment measures, and * provides media, speech, and theatre faculty and administrators with the background, understanding and tools to build stonger programs and develop better courses and educational experiences for their students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805827145

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Media Education Assessment Handbook and Assessing Communication by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Christ
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351575140

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Assessing Media Education by William Christ Pdf

The chapters included in this component of Assessing Media Education are intended for those who have already developed an assessment plan and identified key student learning outcomes, and who need more information on how to measure the outcomes both indirectly and directly.

Author : Kate Silver
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781843103523

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Assessing and Developing Communication and Thinking Skills in People with Autism and Communication Difficulties by Kate Silver Pdf

This photocopiable resource offers a framework for the assessment and measurement of the communication skills of children with autistic spectrum disorders. With assessment and planning sheets, it enables teachers, educators and other professionals to observe and record how children use and understand language, following their progress over time.

Author : William G. Christ
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000149197

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Media Education Assessment Handbook by William G. Christ Pdf

Assessing media education is a formidable task because both assessment and media education are complex and controversial concepts. Assessment, which can take place at the individual student, class, sequence, program, department or unit, and university levels, is questioned in terms of reliability, validity, relevance, and cost. Media education, which has been challenged at a number of schools, finds faculty and administrators in the midst of soul-searching about how to clearly articulate its missions and purposes to a broader audience. Departments are under increasing national, state, and institutional pressure to get assessment procedures carried out quickly, but there is an obvious danger in rushing to implement assessment strategies before establishing what is essential in media education. In communication education in general, the "what" of assessment is often discussed in terms of skills, attitudes, affect, values, and knowledge. People assess students to determine what they know, think, feel, value, and can do. Here it is suggested that one of the places to start defining what students should learn from their media education is by identifying outcomes. Outcomes can be assessed in a variety of ways, but first they need to be developed and clearly articulated.

Author : Trif, Victori?a
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799882497

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Basic Communication and Assessment Prerequisites for the New Normal of Education by Trif, Victori?a Pdf

The understanding of communication refers to canonical schemes from technologies to decisions on where, how, and why the semic act gains or is at risk; to hypotheses and limits; and to normal and unconventional exchanges of senses, despite the confrontations between codes, coding, and decoding. In this book, communication is defined as concept, skill, potential, behavior, mechanism, category of exchange, phenomenon, tool, and variable. This sophisticated view differs from previous studies and assumes the multiple systems of systems and meanings generated by various fieldworks that require/reclaim their primacy over communication. Basic Communication and Assessment Prerequisites for the New Normal of Education discusses the rivalry paradigms, ambiguities, new meanings, and mechanisms of the crossroad between communication and assessment. This book makes an inventory of developments in the area as well as analyzes new edumetrics and psychometrics and inserts new best practices. This involves creating new conversational networks of global best practices and metaparadigms in order to solve current disparities and unsolved problems from the fieldwork. Covering topics such as chronic conditions, online educational environments, and self-assessment competencies, this text is ideal for teachers, parents, students, trainers, decision makers, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Margaret Hundleby,Jo Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351845854

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Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication by Margaret Hundleby,Jo Allen Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. The collection is organized to form a dual approach: on the one hand, it offers a landscape view of the activities involved in assessment - examining how it works at institutional, program, and classroom levels; on the other, it surveys the implications of using assessment for formulating, maintaining, and extending the teaching and practice of technical communication. The book offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners alike evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice. No other volume has addressed the demands of and the expectations for assessment in technical communication. Consequently, the book has two key goals. The first is to be as inclusive as is feasible for its size, demonstrating the global operation of assessment in the field. For this reason, descriptions of assessment practice lead to examinations of some key feature of the landscape captured by the term 'technical communication'. The second goal is to retain the public and cooperative approach that has characterized technical communication from the beginning. To achieve this, the book represents a 'conversation', with contributors chosen from among practicing, highly active technical communication teachers and scholars; and the chapters set up pairs of opening statement and following response. The overriding purpose of the volume, therefore, is to invite the whole community into the conversation about assessment in technical communication.

Author : Joseph L. McCaleb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : UIUC:30112006815572

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How Do Teachers Communicate? by Joseph L. McCaleb Pdf

The primary task of the monograph is to describe and evaluate the conceptualizations of communication found in assessment practices. The first chapter contains a review and analysis of standardized measures and performance assessments of teachers' communication. Twelve communication categories emerge from an inspection of the performance assessments. The numerous meanings given to communication are elaborated by an examination of differences within each category. The second chapter focuses on theory and research. The literature on instructional communication is examined, and a model is developed with five critical skill areas. It is shown how these areas are used for five functions, or purposes, and in different modes or patterns of communicating. The final three chapters discuss limitations in current measures of communication. The perspective of the communication theorist and linguist is used to identify important dimensions of communication that have received little, if any, attention in the assessments. The claim that most performance assessments are grounded in research on teaching effectiveness is explored, and relationships between the assessments and the research are cited. Limitations of that research paradigm are identified and implications for communication from an information-processing model are discussed. (JD)

Author : William G. Christ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1100551792

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Assessing Media Education by William G. Christ Pdf

This component of Assessing Media Education is intended for those who would like to know how other schools have grappled with implementing assessment initiatives, and who have used assessment to improve their programs.

Author : Judith Coupe O'Kane,Juliet Goldbart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136612343

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Communication before Speech by Judith Coupe O'Kane,Juliet Goldbart Pdf

First published in 1998. This is the second edition ‘Communication Before Speech ‘and reflects the new developments in the fields of language acquisition and learning disabilities. Pragmatics, the functional use of communication, has become central to much communicative intervention. Resettlement of people with learning disabilities into the community has been associated with an increased interest in work with adults, particularly those with behaviour that challenges services.

Author : Jay McTighe,Steve Ferrara
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807765401

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Assessing Student Learning by Design by Jay McTighe,Steve Ferrara Pdf

"How might we might help teachers use classroom assessments to gather appropriate evidence for all valued learning goals? How might our classroom assessments serve to promote learning, not just measure it? This book addresses these questions by offering a practical and proven Assessment Planning Framework. The Framework examines four different types of learning goals, considers various purposes and audiences for assessment, reviews five categories of assessment methods, and presents options for communicating results. This updated edition addresses the assessment of academic standards as well as transdisciplinary outcomes (e.g., 21st century skills), and describes the principles and practices underlying standards-based grading"--

Author : Sherwyn P. Morreale,Phil Backlund
Publisher : National Communication Assn
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Oral communication
ISBN : 0944811191

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Large Scale Assessment of Oral Communication by Sherwyn P. Morreale,Phil Backlund Pdf

This publication identifies and examines existing assessment instruments in oral communication for K-12 and higher education, and abstracts and describes assessment instruments and systematically reports their availability and interest to scholars, teachers, and administrators. It also provides background research needed to develop oral communication assessment instruments designed to encourage the development of new instruments. The document begins with an editor's foreword and a preface that relates alternative assessment, test fairness, and assessment utility to communication. It then presents an introduction to assessing oral communication, discusses topics including why oral communication skills should be taught, oral assessment for classroom decision-making, issues in assessing oral communication, locally developed instruments, and research and development priorities. The publication then discusses trends in K-12 state standards and assessment efforts, performance assessment, Speech Communication Association standards for assessment, and identification of measures. It then presents reviews of 16 oral communication assessment instruments for grades K-12. Next, it addresses the process by which instruments for higher education were identified and selected for inclusion, as well providing ideas for using the instruments. The final section presents reviews of 45 higher education instruments, divided into sections containing instruments intended for skills and behavioral assessment, or instructional and informative measures. (RS)