2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.06.002
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Communication skills of deaf and hard-of-hearing college students: Objective measures and self-assessment

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“…The use of Likert scales in self-ratings of language skills run the risk of individuals inflating their assessments (and perhaps avoiding the end points). However, they have proven consistent with objective assessments of sign language and spoken language abilities among deaf university students with and without CIs in previous studies (e.g., Marschark et al, 2018; Spencer et al, 2018) as well as behavioural outcomes in a variety of studies conducted with that population (e.g., Convertino et al, 2009). Further, for the purposes of statistical analyses reported below, only relative differences in self-reported language skills are relevant here, and thus possible discrepancies with objective assessments are not at issue.…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 83%
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“…The use of Likert scales in self-ratings of language skills run the risk of individuals inflating their assessments (and perhaps avoiding the end points). However, they have proven consistent with objective assessments of sign language and spoken language abilities among deaf university students with and without CIs in previous studies (e.g., Marschark et al, 2018; Spencer et al, 2018) as well as behavioural outcomes in a variety of studies conducted with that population (e.g., Convertino et al, 2009). Further, for the purposes of statistical analyses reported below, only relative differences in self-reported language skills are relevant here, and thus possible discrepancies with objective assessments are not at issue.…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 83%
“…That instrument was an abbreviated version of a questionnaire administered to incoming deaf students at RIT for the purposes of classroom service provision (i.e., interpreting, notetaking, real-time text) and in research. RIT has utilised this self-report measure instead of face-to-face communication interviews for over 30 years because it is faster, can be administered online, and has been shown to be both valid and reliable (Marschark et al, 2018; McKee, Stinson, & Blake, 1984; Spencer et al, 2018). Following the Language Communication Background Questionnaire, the questionnaire asked participants for the ages at which they learned to sign and had them rate their overall sign language skill on a 5-point Likert scale from “I don’t know sign language” to “excellent.” They also rated how well they understand spoken language on a 5-point scale from “nothing” to “everything people say” and how much they thought others understood their speech on a 5-point scale from “nothing” to “everything I say.” The latter two ratings were averaged to yield an overall measure of spoken language skill comparable to the LCBQ overall rating of sign language skill.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, they were asked whether "Sign language" or "Speaking/listening" was their best form of communication. These language selfratings have been used extensively with this population in previous studies, demonstrating that responses are consistent with objective assessments of sign language and spoken language abilities among deaf university students with and without CIs as well as with behavioral outcomes (e.g., Marschark et al 2018;Spencer et al 2018). Table 1 presents a summary of the participants' responses to the communication questions.…”
Section: Communication Questionnairementioning
confidence: 59%
“…One limitation of the present study was the lack of either objective assessments of sign language ability or information about whether any of the deaf participants were native signers. With regard to the former issue, recent studies have indicated that deaf college students’ self-ratings of their sign language and spoken language skills usually are correlated with results of objective assessments, even if they sometimes overestimate those skills (Marschark, Machmer, et al, 2018; Spencer et al, 2018). With regard to the latter issue, several studies involving deaf college students have failed to find any advantage in either classroom learning or standardized achievement testing for earlier or native-signing deaf learners over later learners (e.g., Convertino et al, 2009; Crowe et al, 2017; Marschark, Shaver, et al 2015; Marschark, Spencer, et al 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%
“… 2 Whether or not self-report measures are valid indicators of individuals’ skills in any particular domain is an empirical question. The self-report sign language and spoken language measures used in the present study have been validated in studies by Marschark et al (2018) and Spencer et al (2018). …”
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confidence: 99%