RT Journal Article
T1 Assessment of Oral Skills in Adolescents
A1 Gràcia, Marta
A1 Alvarado Izquierdo, Jesús María
A1 Nieva Ramos, Silvia
A2 Muratori, Pietro
AB There is broad consensus on the need to foster oral skills in middle school due to their inherent importance and because they serve as a tool for learning and acquiring other competences. In order to facilitate the assessment of communicative competence, we hereby propose a model which establishes five key dimensions for effective oral communication: interaction management; multimodality and prosody; textual coherence and cohesion; argumentative strategies; and lexicon and terminology. Based on this model, we developed indicators to measure the proposed dimensions, thus generating a self-report tool to assess oral communication in middle school. Following an initial study conducted with 168 students (mean age = 12.47 years, SD = 0.41), we selected 22 items with the highest discriminant power, while in a second study carried out with a sample of 960 students (mean age 14.11 years, SD = 0.97), we obtained evidence concerning factorial validity and the relationships between oral skills, emotional intelligence and metacognitive strategies related to metacomprehension. We concluded that the proposed model and its derived measure constitute an instrument with good psychometric properties for a reliable and valid assessment of students’ oral competence in middle school.
PB Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
SN 2227-9067
YR 2021
FD 2021-12-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95939
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/95939
LA eng
NO Gràcia, M., Alvarado, J. M., & Nieva, S. (2021). Assessment of oral skills in adolescents. Children, 8(12), 1136. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8121136
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 sept 2024