Students' Self-Perceived Listening Competencies in the Basic Speech Communication Course

Listening as a Goal-Directed Activity

“…Shapiro, 2002). For instance, Ford, Wolvin, and Chung (2000) reported data suggesting college students may overestimate their own listening abilities. Another potential limitation inherently present in self-report measures is a social desirability bias, meaning individuals completing the various listening scales in this study, despite reassurances of anonymity, still strove to present themselves as good listeners.…”

Student Estimates of Public Speaking Competency: The Meaning Extraction Helper and Video Self-evaluation

“…Additionally, determining the general categories developed by students in their self-evaluations may be important to understand how accurately students perceive their level of competency (Zabava Ford, Wolvin, & Chung, 2000). In this study, students were asked to grade their speeches in self-evaluations; this permits a comparison of a student grade to an instructor's grade.…”

Understanding Listening Competency: A Systematic Review of Research Scales

“…Listening Competency Scale Revised (LCSR) (Mickelson & Welch, 2013) Listening Competency Scale (LCS) (Ford et al, 2000) [This scale was called FWC in our previous ILA Paper, Fontana et al, 2013. ] Listening Style Profile Revised (LSPR) (Bodie, Worthington, & Gearhart, 2013) …”

“…Third, if there were multiple versions of a scale, we decided to include all versions that met the other criteria. For example, we included both the original Listening Competency Scale (Ford, Wolvin, & Chung, 2000) and the Revised Listening Competency Scale (Mickelson & Welch, 2012). Although this criterion introduces dependency into the sampling and potentially weights a scale by the number of versions, this approach allowed us to perform an analysis on older scales and newer scales.…”