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Evaluating Basic Public Speaking Course Student Presentations: Some Assessment Considerations, Mary Mino
Evaluating Basic Public Speaking Course Student Presentations: Some Assessment Considerations, Mary Mino
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
Evaluating basic course students’ presentational speaking skills accurately and effectively has always been a challenging and vitally important instructional task. Considering the communication discipline’s need to clarify and to improve communication course assessment, this essay compares the effectiveness of four valid presentational speaking forms. In order to explain the need for this comparison, first, the essay emphasizes for basic public speaking course instructors the significance of increasing students’ understanding of communication competence both in theory and practice. Second, the essay supports a rationale for examining the effectiveness of presentational evaluation forms using a comparative analysis as the basis of this …