The Use of Oral Communications Courses in High School to Increase Skills in Language Arts

<p>The purpose of this study was to see if there is any difference between the reading and English test scores (TASK= Stanford Test of Academic Skills) between those high schoo1 students who take oral communications courses and those who do not take such courses.</p> <p>This study used a sample of 40 students enrolled in oral communications courses from three randomly selected high schools. The comparison sample included 40 randomly selected students enrolled in Phase II English courses at the same schools.</p> <p>The Stanford Test of Academic Skills served as both a pretest and a posttest for scores for all of the selected students in an effort to see if oral communications courses are helpful in increasing test scores for high school students.</p> <p>Findings revealed no significant difference in the scores for the oral communications and Phase II English groups as a whole. However, there appears to be a trend of some noticeable differences in the scores for the boys and girls from the Phase II English group.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Specialist in Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teacher Education

Year

1986

Author dc:creator

• Johnson, Sylvia C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. James Brewbaker
• Dr. Carolyn Cartledge
• Dr. Hall

• English
• TASK= Stanford Test of Academic Skills
• High School Students
• Oral Communications Courses
• Reading
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Educational Methods
• Language and Literacy Education

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/607

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1608