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Speech Communication: Content Knowledge

Provider
ETS
Format
Computer-delivered selected-response examination; test-center and monitored at-home options are the same examination.
Exam questions
Total questions: 120.
Time limit
2 hours
Exam fee
$130.00 as displayed on the current ETS examination page; additional services may carry separate charges.
Examination outline
  • Communication Fundamentals (11%)
    • Verbal and nonverbal messages
    • Effective listening behaviors
    • Elements of communication and their definitions
    • Communication process: perception, self-concept, self-disclosure
    • The functions, development, and assessment of communication competence
  • Interpersonal Communication (13%)
    • Interpersonal and intrapersonal elements of the communication process
    • Relational communication competence
    • Goals, skills, and outcomes of interpersonal communication
    • Effect of gender and culture
    • Emotional and relational messages
    • Communication processes in different types of relationships: personal, family, romantic, business
  • Group Communication (13%)
    • Discussion principles
    • Problem solving and decision making
    • Group roles and functions
    • Conflict management and mediation
    • Effect of culture on leadership
    • Group communication processes
  • Public Speaking (18%)
    • Purposes, types, and forms
    • Audience analysis
    • Strategies for organizing content
    • Style and use of language
    • Effective delivery
    • Listening, adapting to an audience, and feedback
    • Choosing supporting materials and ethics of using supporting materials
    • Components of delivery: voice and diction, pronunciation, movement
    • Criticism and evaluation of speeches; rhetorical criticism; assessing student speeches
    • Effect of culture on public speaking
    • Argument in public speaking settings
  • Media and Their Influences (13%)
    • Critical analysis and evaluation of media forms
    • Influence on audiences: programming, commercials, political process
    • Production techniques; communication technologies
    • Environmental influences that affect the media industry
    • Types of media: television, radio, Internet, and social media
    • Media response to race, gender, and class issues
  • Oral Interpretation and Performance Studies (11%)
    • Literary principles and aesthetics
    • Characteristics of analysis: text and context, interpretation process
    • Principles of acting and performance techniques: voice, use of manuscripts, development of characters
    • Dramatic theory and criticism: forms, styles, structures
    • Readers’ theater, storytelling, folklore, oral history, and creative dramatics
  • Forensics: Competitive Speech and Debate (11%)
    • Individual events: public address, interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, oratory
    • Writing and/or performing individual events
    • Effective program management: tournament and team management, coaching philosophy, school relations
    • Argumentation and debate: Lincoln-Douglas debate, persuasion, policy
  • Assessment and Evaluation Issues (10%)
    • Teacher responsibility: ethics, promptness of feedback, objective assessment of performance
    • Assessment techniques for oral performance: classroom behaviors, written and oral critiques, rubrics
    • Test construction and alternate forms of communication assessment
    • Curriculum development: implementation, appropriate assignments, textbook selection
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