Accession Number:

ADA247042

Title:

Feasibility Standards for Communicative Skills: Final Report for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Oct 1991-Jan 1992

Corporate Author:

MANDEX INC NEWPORT NEWS VA

Personal Author(s):

• Dolmetsch, Carl R.
• McDougal, Winn B.
• Vause, Deborah N.

Report Date:

1992-01-27

Pagination or Media Count:

166.0

Abstract:

An investigation was conducted to determine the feasibility of using existing instruments to measure the communicative skills proficiencies writing, speaking, and listening of Noncommissioned Officers NCOs to the Armys standards. The literature was reviewed with an emphasis on issues associated with testing in general and proceeded to the specific areas of writing, speaking, and listening. Support was found for the interrelatedness of these skills the whole language approach. However, it is a complex relationship, and there remain considerable differences between the three models.

Descriptors:

• *FEASIBILITY STUDIES
• MEASUREMENT
• STANDARDS
• LANGUAGE
• INSTRUMENTATION
• ARMY
• WRITING
• NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS

Subject Categories:

• Linguistics
• Voice Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE