Presentation Skills: a Course for Students on Voice Production and Confidence-Building

Gray, L. E.; McCrorie, Peter; Cushing, Angela

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4886-3_229

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“…Previous research examined OPS in K-12 environments 3, 4 focusing on eliminating problem behaviors or speaking anxiety. Research using college samples involved scientific and non-scientific presentation grading, courses for improving OPS, physiological responses while speaking, and public speaking anxiety 5,6,7,8,9,10,12 . Recent research has acknowledged the scarcity of studies on OPS 13 .…”

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Predicting scientific oral presentation scores in a high school photonics science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) program

2014

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A hybrid teacher professional development, student science technology mathematics and engineering pipeline enrichment program was operated by the reporting research group for the past 3 years. Overall, the program has reached 69 students from 13 counties in North Carolina and 57 teachers from 30 counties spread over a total of five states. Quantitative analysis of oral presentations given by participants at a program event is provided. Scores from multiple raters were averaged and used as a criterion in several regression analyses. Overall it was revealed that student grade point averages, most advanced science course taken, extra quality points earned in their most advanced science course taken, and posttest scores on a pilot research design survey were significant predictors of student oral presentation scores. Rationale for findings, opportunities for future research, and implications for the iterative development of the program are discussed.

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