Assessing Critical-Analytical Listening Skills in Math and Engineering Students: An Exploratory Inquiry of How Analytical Listening Skills Can Positively Impact Learning

Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca; Stroumbakis, Kostas; Drini, Merlinda; Lynch, Barbara; Vogel, Rosanne

doi:10.1080/10904018.2016.1222910

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“…More recently, critical listening skills have been associated with the act of arguing, inquiring, testing, being critical, and answering towards a specific message (31). However, in this study we adopted the definition of critical listening skills that is specifically adapted to a classroom setting (25). Critical listening skills are defined by Ferrari-Bridgers et.…”

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Improving Critical Listening skills in EMT Students

Armstrong

Ferrari-Bridgers

2020

Irish J Para

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Introduction: Although the importance of EMT students utilizing critical listening skills is apparent, there is little research focused on EMT students or EMTs and critical listening. Ensuring EMT students develop critical listening skills can be an asset that reaches beyond the goal of improving their education. It also has the potential to improve the quality of care they go on to deliver. EMTs may have the only verbal contact with the patient while they are still conscious, or with bystanders that witnessed the incident, or family members/health aides that can give vitally important information on the patient’s condition. If an EMT is not adept at critical listening, vital information may be lost, and the repercussions can be serious. This project was designed to determine whether EMT student critical listening ability and class performance would improve from engaging in critical listening exercises.Methods: Critical listening exercises were emphasized during an EMT course by assessing student knowledge of the Patient Assessment module through two listening exercises modelled after the Ferrari, Lynch, and Vogel Listening Test that measures for critical listening skills. The Patient Assessment module was assessed twice within four weeks in a test-retest design.Results: The data analysis of a total of n = 51 students’ performance in the pre and post-assessments yielded positive results and showed students significantly improved their listening ability within the four-week period. An overall score increase of 34.50 % was found between the pre and the post assessment results. Moreover, the data analysis showed that as the result of the listening exercises, students scored significantly higher in the section of the certifying exam that included critical listening exercises than in all other sections.Conclusion: The results suggest performing critical listening exercises and assessments can help EMT students properly develop critical listening skills and improve performance.

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Improving Critical Listening skills in EMT Students

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Ferrari-Bridgers

2020

Irish J Para

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“…Consequently, while taking a test, students can more easily disambiguate the content of the test items and find the right answers. These claims are supported by studies by Ferrari-Bridgers, Stroumbakis, et al (2017), Ferrari-Bridgers, Vogel, and, and Armstrong and Ferrari-Bridgers (2019), whose data analysis suggests that assessing content through a dualmodality test (reading and listening) improves students' exam performance. In order to understand the effects of input modality on comprehension and test performance, a brief literature review of the topic is outlined in the next section.…”

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Assessing Critical Listening Skills in Accounting Community College Students: An Exploratory Inquiry of How Exercising Listening Skills Positively Impacts Students’ Test Performance

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Murolo

2022

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

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Although several studies have demonstrated the importance of listening skills in the classroom and in the workplace, business administration college programs seldom include teaching listening as part of their curriculum because of content saturation and credit hours constraints. In this pilot study, we describe how integrating simple listening activities in the classroom, without making major modifications to the curriculum, improves students’ comprehension and test performance. The study demonstrates how exercising critical listening skills while taking a test has a positive effect on students’ retention of information and test scores.

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“…In a global project context, information and opinions will be exchanged among stakeholders, and systems engineers need the ability to resolve issues through communication. All facets of communication should be developed, although literature specifically highlights the importance of the listening element in communication competency development 30–32 …”

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“…All facets of communication should be developed, although literature specifically highlights the importance of the listening element in communication competency development. [30][31][32] Communication competency must be taught, practiced, and evaluated just like any other skill. Team problem solving • Create awareness of individual approach compared to others I work with, especially those that approach it differently form the individual.…”

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Integration of international competencies into systems engineering graduate programs

Handley

2021

Systems Engineering

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It has been widely acknowledged that systems engineers require international competencies to address global problems and participate in diverse teams to enable them to work with people who think differently and whose beliefs and culture might be different. However, practical approaches to build these competencies in graduate-level systems engineering programs are few. This paper offers an approach to facilitate learning for the international competencies required to be a successful systems engineer in an international arena. Most systems engineers pursuing master's degrees are working full time and some are taking classes in a web-based or distributed mode. This renders most of the methods suggested for teaching international competencies in undergraduate (or full-time graduate) curriculums untenable, that is, requiring a second language, studying abroad, or other time-intensive or location-specific activity. The aim of this paper is to derive a model that provides a guideline on how to facilitate learning of the international competencies and support the competencies building process with the required flexibility expected of a graduate level learning program. The competency building model was derived from literature and piloted using a COVID-19 case study; the case study is based on a typical systems engineering exercise combined with social learning aspects that initiate the development process of international competencies. The model provides an example of how some of the international competencies can be integrated into existing systems engineering curricula and the example case study illustrates a specific implementation for part-time, graduate students. This research offers a transition from theory to application and identifies practical approaches to transfer international competencies to graduate students. As highlighted by literature and by the case study pilot, by facilitating exposure to different problem perspectives, as well as deliberate reflection and analysis during teaching interactions, these competencies can be built.

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Assessing Critical-Analytical Listening Skills in Math and Engineering Students: An Exploratory Inquiry of How Analytical Listening Skills Can Positively Impact Learning

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Improving Critical Listening skills in EMT Students

Improving Critical Listening skills in EMT Students

Assessing Critical Listening Skills in Accounting Community College Students: An Exploratory Inquiry of How Exercising Listening Skills Positively Impacts Students’ Test Performance

Integration of international competencies into systems engineering graduate programs

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