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THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING IN WRITTEN COMMUNICATION ON VERBAL SKILLS
Author(s) -
LOEWENTHAL KATE,
KOSTREVSKI BARBARA
Publication year - 1973
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.2044-8279.1973.tb00744.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , nonverbal communication , quality (philosophy) , mathematics education , applied psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , biology
S ummary . This was a pilot study to test the effectiveness of a training procedure which it was hoped would increase students' awareness of the reader's requirements when writing descriptions of technological equipment. Pairs of students took turns at commenting on each other's descriptions. Some improvement occurred in performance on verbal items on the AH5 and in quality of written descriptions made by trained experimental subjects (N=26) compared with untrained controls (N=19).