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Testing in Radio Language Courses
Author(s) -
Meiden Walter
Publication year - 1942
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1942.tb00657.x
Subject(s) - attendance , psychology , mathematics education , test (biology) , medical education , political science , medicine , law , paleontology , biology
Author's Summary.— Among the methods of estimating attendance in a radio language course are official enrollment figures, amount of correspondence received, quantity of texts bought from publishers, and number of tests mailed in. Tests probably furnish the most accurate means of estimating attendance and the degree of success of the course. They also direct the attention of the student toward the skills the instructor wishes to emphasize. They afford to the listener a frequent opportunity of asking questions and of making suggestions. But students must be persuaded to want to send in tests. This may be accomplished partly by making the taking of tests a requirement for receiving free material used in the course.