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THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ORAL COMPOSITION QUALITY SCALE
Author(s) -
SKULL J.,
WILKINSON A.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1969.tb02078.x
Subject(s) - semantic differential , psychology , impression , scale (ratio) , quality (philosophy) , linguistics , social psychology , computer science , epistemology , geography , cartography , philosophy , world wide web
S ummary . The aim of the study was to produce an oral composition quality scale for the 15–16+ age level, and to evaluate it by impression, by a semantic differential technique, and by linguistic analysis. 130 students representing all grades of oral ability were recorded on the same personal topic, and 10 talks in random order were finally selected as the final sample. Assessment by experienced teachers and students showed the former to be more reliable, and impression to be more reliable than semantic differential, while certain linguistic measures correlated highly with the grand ranked order.