Personnel Requirement In Forensics Education,
2020
California State University, Northridge
Personnel Requirement In Forensics Education, Don Brownlee
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
The purpose of this position paper is not to ignite discontent with the present role of GAs, but rather to focus attention on a select number of issues regarding GAs that should be of interest to the forensics community and, particularly, to programs employing them. My comments and speculations represent my own experiences as a GA during masters and doctoral work, including responsibility for directing a forensics program during doctoral study. These thoughts are also a function of having worked with some two dozen GAs during my 13 years as a full-time faculty director of forensics.
Open Discussion From Ethical Questions For Coaches/Competitors,
2020
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Open Discussion From Ethical Questions For Coaches/Competitors
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Discussion from the Ethical Questions for Coaches/Competitors session at the First Developmental Conference on Individual Events.
Recommendations From Ethical Questions For Coaches/Competitors,
2020
University of Wisconsin, Stout
Recommendations From Ethical Questions For Coaches/Competitors, Michael Nicolai
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Recommendations from the Ethical Questions for Coaches/Competitors session at the First Developmental Conference on Individual Events.
Have We Been Offering Too Much Help?,
2020
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Have We Been Offering Too Much Help?, Patricia Kalanquin
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Should the speech writing process be a completely collaborative effort between coach and student? Should an oral interpretation selection used successfully by one student be filed away and given to another student for competition two or three years later? If any of these situations sound familiar to you, it is probably because you are an individual events (IE) coach. Often as IE coaches, we are called upon to answer questions, like the ones above, that may not have one right answer. Questions like these, bring up issues of ethical standards. As an IE coach, I find it is most difficult …
Ethics And Forensics: There Is A Need,
2020
South Dakota State University
Ethics And Forensics: There Is A Need, Joel L. Hefling
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
It has been fairly well established that the decade of the '80s is a very competitive one. We are bombarded daily with competition for our attention, for our affection, for our time, and for our dollars. As a result. It becomes increasingly important for us to be able to intelligently make decisions, and to make them quickly. Sometimes there is time to ponder alternatives and to consider options. Often, however, that time is not available. At those moments, it is important to be able to draw upon a broad-based background o! information to assist us in the decision-making process. That …
Looking In From The Fringe: A Need For Commonality And Accountability In Professional Ethical Standards In Forensics,
2020
Luzerne County Communication College
Looking In From The Fringe: A Need For Commonality And Accountability In Professional Ethical Standards In Forensics, Sujanet Mason
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Our conceptions of honesty, decency, and integrity determine who and what we are. We should ask exactly what is our concept of "right" and "wrong." As we can seldom circumvent the level of our skills, talents, or conscience, our decisions and conduct are the product of moral reference. It is suggested that education and training are the means to earn what is wanted from life, therefore, the educated man, at least ideally, doesn't have the temptation to cheat or steal. Further, it has been said, "One need not be as worried about the multiplication of sinners as with the disappearance …
Ethical Considerations For Forensics Educators,
2020
George Mason University
Ethical Considerations For Forensics Educators, Sheryl A. Friedley
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
In 1984, the Ethics of Advocacy Committee at the National Developmental Conference on Forensics defined forensics as primarily an educational activity. In addition, that same Committee defined "ethical behavior" as that which promotes the educational goals of the activity while "unethical behavior" hinders such educational goals (Parson, 1984, p. 14). With this educational perspective as the focus of this discussion, I will posit three specific ethical responsibilities to which I believe forensic educators should aspire. While these ethical responsibilities do not dictate specific policy, they do provide an educationally-based philosophy from which specific ethical policy may be formed.
Open Discussion From Administrative Support/Publicity,
2020
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Open Discussion From Administrative Support/Publicity
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Discussion from the Administrative Support/Publicity session at the First Developmental Conference on Individual Events.
Recommendations From Administrative Support/Publicity,
2020
University of Nebraska
Recommendations From Administrative Support/Publicity, Jack Kay
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Recommendations from the Administrative Support/Publicity session at the First Developmental Conference on Individual Events.
Strategies To Enhance University Support For Individual Events Programs,
2020
Suffolk University
Strategies To Enhance University Support For Individual Events Programs, Edward J. Harris Jr.
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
It is only fitting that we gather for this historic inaugural Conference on Individual Events as we stand on the doorstep of the 1990's. If intercollegiate Individual Events is to prosper in the decade ahead, it must entrench itself in the changing structure of University decision making. Forensics must exist in the context of an academic institution and so must make itself a valued aspect of that institution. In the 1990's that means survival in an atmosphere of budget cutting, concern for accountability and pleas for a return to basics. As a forensic coach, a teacher and a Department Chair, …
Creating A Climate Of Support For Forensics Programs,
2020
Manchester College
Creating A Climate Of Support For Forensics Programs, Larry Underberg
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
This paper offers three recommendations bearing on the general topic of administrative support and publicity. First, I urge the collection and dissemination of information about funding levels, activity levels, and instructional demands in forensics. This information would provide an important data base for directors of forensics who bear the primary responsibility for securing sup port for their forensics program and negotiating expectations that influence outside assessments of program quality and instructional performance. Second, a call for increased attention to non-competitive public service programs as a means of enhancing program visibility and reaffirming a commitment to speech as a means for …
The Cultivation Of Administrative And General Suppport For Individual Events Programs: Some Practiceal Suggestions,
2020
North Dakota State University
The Cultivation Of Administrative And General Suppport For Individual Events Programs: Some Practiceal Suggestions, Robert S. Littlefield
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
In the proceedings for both the first and second developmental conferences on forensics, a number of issues were raised regarding administrative support or lack thereof for forensic programs. Six of the topics discussed in those proceedings are appropriate to the focus of this paper regarding administrative support and publicity: (1) Administrative support needs to be cultivated through enhanced awareness of forensic programs and their benefits for students (McBath, 13; Parson, 42); (2) the forensic community must work together to promote the activity (Parson, 48); (3) professional organizations must serve their members in a variety of ways (Parson, 39); (4) additional …
Earning Support For Individual Events Programs,
2020
East Central University
Earning Support For Individual Events Programs, Robert W. Greenstreet
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
This paper is divided into four areas. The first provides suggestions for the general orientation of the individual events program. The remaining areas focus on the three major functions of colleges and universities in the U.S. today: instruction, scholarship, and service. (Scholarship is approached as undergraduate scholarship, as another conference group is focusing on in individual events.) In each area, I suggest steps directors of individual events programs may take to become a more integral part of the academic communities in which their programs are housed. Those steps take the form of recommendations. Only two of the recommendations in this …
Open Discussion From Standards For Evaluation/Judging,
2020
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Open Discussion From Standards For Evaluation/Judging
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Discussion from the Standards for Evaluation/Judging session at the First Developmental Conference on Individual Events.
Recommendations From Standards For Evaluation/Judging,
2020
University of Northern Illinois
Recommendations From Standards For Evaluation/Judging, Judy Santacaterina
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Recommendations from the Standards for Evaluation/Judging sessions at the First Developmental Conference on Individual Events.
Avoiding The Schism: An Assessment Of Attitudes Toward Performance Of Literature In Competitive Environments,
2020
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Avoiding The Schism: An Assessment Of Attitudes Toward Performance Of Literature In Competitive Environments, Cindy J. Kistenberg, Paul H. Ferguson
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
The number of students involved, variety of events, and general popularity of oral interpretation competition at current forensics tournaments suggests an activity in radiant good health. But this apparent good health may be threatened by controversy between oral interpretation theorists and those involved in competitive interpretation. Concern about the purpose of oral interpretation is responsible for this controversy.
A Proposal For The Creation Of Uniform Judging Philosopy Statements In Individual Events Competitions: An Attempt To Empower Competitors, Coaches/Critics And The Forensics Activity,
2020
Iowa State University
A Proposal For The Creation Of Uniform Judging Philosopy Statements In Individual Events Competitions: An Attempt To Empower Competitors, Coaches/Critics And The Forensics Activity, Rob Tucker
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
The judging of individual events has long been fraught with difficulty, with critics invoking their own idiosyncratic preferences and biases, instead of some form of consistent judging standard. Students have forfeited the advantage of having detailed information about a given judge's philosophy or criticism criteria. In 1984, forensics theorists produced a set of standards by which speeches could be constructed and subsequently evaluated. There exists little or no evidence that coaches/critics have actually adopted these standards, and so, as before, students are left without a guide. This paper examines the history of theory development concerning judging criteria and advances a …
Everything Is What It Is And Not Another Thing: A Hierarchical Criteria For Evaluation In Informative Persuasion And Communication Analysis,
2020
Southeastern Illinois College
Everything Is What It Is And Not Another Thing: A Hierarchical Criteria For Evaluation In Informative Persuasion And Communication Analysis, Gary Allen, George Dennis
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
We will focus upon three events that are of particular concern or interest to us -- Informative, Persuasion and Communication Analysis. In doing so, we will discuss problems and trends in evaluation that we perceive in each event, and argue for a hierarchical criteria that ought to be the basis for evaluation and judgement In addition we will present a suggestion for a ballot-form that we believe will help improve the ballots as well as give a boost toward more uniformity of standards.
The Individual Event Ballot: Pedagogical Tool Or Narcissistic Soapbox?,
2020
Otterbein College
The Individual Event Ballot: Pedagogical Tool Or Narcissistic Soapbox?, Kevin Jones
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Before developing some standards for evaluating/judging individual events, it is necessary to understand what exactly a ballot should do, and to look at some of the problems surrounding present standards and why new standards are in order. This paper will focus upon the pedagogical aspect of judging by first, examining the educational aspect of forensics; second, exploring the "useless ballot" issue and attempting to identify some causes of the problem; and finally, presenting some possible solutions and guidelines which might aid in correcting this concern. Hopefully, discussion will be generated from this paper and panel which will result in promoting …
Open Discussion On A Rationale For Events To Be Included In I.E. Competition,
2020
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Open Discussion On A Rationale For Events To Be Included In I.E. Competition
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
Discussion held at the Rationale for Events to be Included in I.E. Competition session at the First Developmental Conference on Individual Events.
