This study aims to design an instrument to measure and develop students’ group and communication skills. The criteria for determining whether or not a device is feasible to include the instrument’s validity, reliability, readability, cost-effectiveness, and fairness. Communication skills are a crucial competency that plays a vital role in determining an individual’s level of organizational success (Musheke & Phiri, 2021). The ability of an employee to generate, transmit, and receive information verbally and nonverbally is an essential factor in determining that individual’s level of productivity. The ability to communicate effectively is connected to other aspects of one’s character, such as courtesy and tolerance. Verbal communication can be interpreted as a speaking ability, which includes the skills of clarifying and suggesting information to an audience.
The quality of communication that exists inside a company is directly related to the overall performance. These qualities include adapting to how a speaker talks, utilizing the appropriate strategy and style, and comprehending the significance of non-verbal indicators. On the other hand, being able to communicate effectively in writing involves writing in a variety of contexts, including emails, text messages, and other forms of written correspondence. A person’s communication skills include their capacity to use various forms of media, which allows them to derive benefits from their interactions with multiple forms of media. The following are some of the abilities that are required: (1) the ability to listen actively, (2) the ability to communicate information effectively, (3) the ability to think on one’s feet quickly, and (4) the ability to negotiate in a way that benefits both parties.
In this investigation, the type of evaluation tool that is thought to effectively reveal information regarding communication skills is to administer a test to the individual concerned. It is anticipated that the instrument will be helpful in the classroom setting and satisfactory to interested parties once it is implemented. In this scenario, the designed instrument is a test instrument based on practical experience. Practices-based tests are sometimes referred to as action tests, and they are designed to expose pupils’ motoric skills. The areas of ability and skill, as well as the capacity to act, are known as motoric domains, and they are those developed in response to a specific teaching moment. In the meantime, psychomotor refers to acquiring knowledge through the development of skills as a direct result of the acquisition of knowledge. The outcomes of psychomotor training are a combination of cognitive learning and affective learning, which is the tendency to act or behave. The learner’s competency in developing self-regulation includes the ability to accomplish an activity. Testing is an evaluation that the teachers carry out to assess how the students have achieved the desired levels of skill competencies (Brown & Abdulnabi, 2017). These skill competencies include naturalization, imitation, articulation, manipulation, and precision (Griffith University, 2022b).
The viability test of the practice-based testing methods of communication skills will be done by sending the established instruments and the evaluation questionnaires to the participants. The questionnaires will gather information about the participants’ communication skills. After that, we inquired of them to render a verdict concerning the caliber of the instrument, in addition to making some recommendations and offering their viewpoints. The clarity of the instrument instruction, the transparency of the communication skills metrics, the language employed, and grammar are all factors that are considered when evaluating the instrument’s readability. The evaluation uses a scale with multiple levels, with a maximum score of 5 possible. The usage of the standard English language and the ability to formulate communicative assertions are the two components that make up the evaluation of the linguistic elements of the document. Assessing your writing skills will entail checking your proficiency with 1) letter form, 2) letter size, and 3) punctuation. Testing the practicality of the instrument is based on the following aspects: (a) viability in the context that the tool is considerably simpler to execute in the tests; (b) in terms of convenience to undertake a work evaluation after carrying out tests; and (c) in the way that the tool is easy to use because they are fitted with instructions. All of these aspects are taken into consideration. The potency of the instrument is evaluated based on the following criteria: (a) the impact of elements that are established with the concept of communication skills; (b) the performance of the instrument metrics in assessing communication skills; (c) the relevance of the test items’ substantive content; and (d) the compliance among test resources and educational tools. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that the communication skills assessment instruments established in this paper, when viewed from the perspectives of system validity, readability, cost-effectiveness, and fairness.
The reliability of the assessment instruments will be investigated by first ascertaining whether or not the content was genuine through the utilization of expert consensus. Elements of an assessment can measure critical goals relevant to the particular topic being evaluated (Griffith University, 2022a). In that case, such items are regarded as having content validity for the instrument.
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Griffith University. (2022a). Designing Appropriate Measurement Instruments. Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Griffith University. (2022b). Designing instruments for performance measurement: Today’s workshop. Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Musheke, M., & Phiri, J. (2021). The Effects of Effective Communication on Organizational Performance Based on the Systems Theory. Open Journal Of Business And Management, 09(02), 659-671. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojbm.2021.92034
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