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Mead, Nancy A.

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Mead, Nancy A. – 1977

Issues related to a national assessment of speaking and listening skills include the specification of the domain of communication competencies, the selection of measurement strategies, and the elimination of racial and ethnic bias. A project committee proposed that the domain of national assessment spans three dimensions: function (informing,…

Descriptors: Listening Skills, Measurement Instruments, Measurement Objectives, National Competency Tests

Assessing Speaking Skills: Issues of Feasibility, Reliability. Validity and Bias.

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Mead, Nancy A. – 1980

Focusing on the problems of assessing the speaking skills of secondary school students, this paper provides one example of how those problems were addressed in the Massachusetts speaking assessment. The paper identifies four requirements for measures of speaking skills: (1) feasibility, (2) reliability, (3) validity, and (4) freedom from bias. The…

Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques