Direct Assessment Plan

1. Pre-post tests of knowledge given.

2. Student perception survey given (below)
3. Group process reflection paper – students asked to do a self-reflection paper on
the group dynamics that occurred during the preparation and presentation of their
group project. Students were required to critique their own personal contributions
to the group’s social and task dimensions, as well as consider how the group
presentation assignment helped them to develop as a public speaker.
4. Final exam skills assessment question – students’ individual speeches were
videotaped and then students asked to reflect and set goals after viewing the video
of each speaking assignment. This reflection process then culminated in the
following final exam question: Describe, in detail, your progress as a
communicator over this semester. What specifically have you improved upon in
terms of interpersonal, group, AND public communication? (HINT: go back to
the 5 communication principles for a lifetime from your textbook – abbreviated
here as aware, verbal, nonverbal, listen, adapt – and explain what you’ve learned
about these for each of the 3 contexts above.) What do you still need to work on
in each of these three areas – how do you hope to work on these things?

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Speaking and Listening Student Perceptions survey

The following questions ask you to characterize your experience in this semester’s Oral
Communication course.

Please answer the multiple choice questions on the blue scantron sheets provided by
filling in your answers in the bubbles provided with a #2 pencil.
(Likert scale)
1. Coming into this course, I expected to be challenged to improve my speaking and
listening.
2. Upon completing this course, I feel that I was challenged to improve my speaking
and listening.

My Oral Communication course contributed to my development as a speaker and listener

by helping me become better at the following activities:
3. creating and presenting well-organized, well-delivered speeches
4. working constructively in groups to solve problems and accomplish tasks
5. critically analyzing and interpreting verbal and nonverbal messages
6. demonstrating effective listening in a variety of contexts
7. identifying specific strategies for how relationships begin, are maintained, and
end
8. demonstrating an understanding of culture and its impact on the communication
process
9. I feel that I gained new knowledge about communication in this course.
10. I feel that I gainted new speaking and listening abilities in this course.
11. Overall, I have found what I learned in this course to be useful in other courses
and life experiences.
12. I am classified as the following this semester: a. freshman, b. soph…etc.
13. I am majoring in the following college/s (choose all tha apply; if
undecided/unknown, leave blank)

Answer the following short answer questions below:

1. What would you say are the strengths of this course?
2. What would you say are the weaknesses of this course?

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