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?

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?

Oral Communication 2/2