Some Correlates of Listening Comprehension

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Bird Donald E. “Teaching Listening Comprehension”. Journal of Communication. 3, November 1953, 127–30.

Wilt Miriam E. “A Study of Teacher Awareness of Listening as a Factor in Elementary Education”. Journal of Educational Research. 43, April 1950, 626–636.

Nichols Ralph G. Stevens Leonard A. “Are You Listening?” New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., 1957.

Goldstein Harry . “Reading and Listening Comprehension at Various Controlled Rates”. Teachers College Contributions to Education 821. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1940, 69 pp.

Nelson Harold E. “The Effect of Variation of Rate on the Recall by Radio Listeners of ‘straight’ Newscasts”. Speech Monographs. 15, 1948, 173–180.

Fergen Geraldine K. “Listening Comprehension at Controlled Rates for Children in Grades 4, 5 and 6”. Dissertation Abstracts. 15, No. 1, 1955, 89.

Fairbanks G. Guttman N. Miron M. S. “Effects of Time Compression Upon the Comprehension of Connected Speech”. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. 22, March 1957, 10–19.

Fergen , op. cit.

Harwood Kenneth A. “Listenability and Rate of Presentation”. Speech Monographs. 22, March 1955, 57–59.

Goldstein , op. cit.

Fairbanks , op. cit.

Diehl Charles F. White Richard C. Burk Kenneth W. “Rate and Communication”. Speech Monographs. 26, August 1959, 229–232.

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Duff T. S. “Some Correlates of Listening Comprehension”. Unpublished M.A. thesis, presented at University of Auckland, 1964.

Goldstein , op. cit., 62. (As cited by Stevens S. S. ed. Handbook of Experimental Psychology. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1951, 1331.).

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Spearritt Donald . Listening Comprehension—A Factorial Analysis. Melbourne: A.C.E.R. (Research Series No. 76), 1962, 149 pp.

The following reliability coefficients reported by Spearritt—RGS 0.67; RI 0.72; RND 0.72; LGS 0.56; LI 0.62; LND 0.64; ST 0.44—though rather low for individual diagnosis, were considered to be sufficiently high for the correlational analyses in this study.

Wert James E. Neidt Charles O. Ahmann J. Stanley . Statistical Methods in Educational and Psychological Research. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1954, 435 pp.

Ibid., 261.

Larsen Robert P. Feder D. D. “Common and Differential Factors in Reading and Hearing Comprehension”. Journal of Educational Psychology. 31, April 1940, 241–252.

Guilford J. P. Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education (Third Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1956. Chap. 16.

Ibid. Table D, 538–539.

Ibid., 412–415.

Fairbanks , op. cit.

Fairbanks G. Guttman N. Miron Murray S. “Auditory Comprehension of Repeated High-Speed Messages”. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. 22, March 1957, 20–22.

Foulke Emerson , “The Comprehension of Rapid Speech by the Blind”. Exceptional Children. 29, November 1962, 134–141.

For a number of useful suggestions, see Russell David H. Russell Elizabeth F. Listening Aids Through the Grades. Melbourne: A.C.E.R. Reprint, 1964.

In 1964, the Australian Council for Educational Research, in conjunction with the New South Wales Department of Education Curriculum Branch, developed a carefully standardised test—the A.C.E.R. Test L (Listening) for use in the Basic Skills Testing Programme in New South Wales State schools.

Spearritt, op. cit., 92.