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This article presents an analysis of two categories of communication, namely speaking and listening, and raises questions about their assessment under a testing program in Florida. These questions concern the human implications arising from the program's administration, such as who has the responsibility for student preparation. Language arts instruction has emphasized the curriculum in reading and writing. at the elementary school level in Florida, most teachers have no formal instruction in either speaking or listening education. At the secondary school level, there are few formal course approaches to the teaching of listening

The article attempts to relate a symbolic interactionist definition to political communication and examines the role of the media in determining the nature of the individual's political communication. It discusses the concepts that are emphasized in many publications on communication, including reality and socialization. It describes the growing influence of the media on the delivery of political messages and how the media affects the audience's control over the selection, nature or quality of the information.

The article discusses the sound changes in connected speech. Selected forms of spoken language are the focus of teachers from some geographic regions or those representing certain racial or ethnic groups. They also assume that their own usage is more appropriate. In addition, there is a tendency to denigrate dialects among teachers. Assimilation and changes in articulatory placement of sounds which precede or follow other sounds are also common in connected speech. The reversal of sounds, or metathesis, is another type of sound change that teachers use.

Presents the author's views on women in higher education administration in the U.S. Existence of discrimination of women in administration; Equality of women in higher education; Occurrence of male chauvinism and domination.

This article looks at issues concerning college level examination programs in speech communication as of April 1975. Traditionally, colleges and universities have tended to require satisfaction of the prerequisites before allowing advanced enrollment. Efforts to find some means for assessing where the student is have been sporadic. In the past few years, while greater numbers have enrolled in programs in higher education, economic inflation has pushed the costs for providing the programs to record high. Legislators and trustees, perhaps never inclined to over-generosity even in the best of times, have pressured the administrations and faculties of the institutions to reduce costs. One of the more common proposals has called for some form of shortened student tenure. The modern student is frequently acknowledged to be more sophisticated, more broadly experienced, than his/her counterpart of a few years ago. Proponents for shortened undergraduate programs have contended that some means should be found to evaluate the student's knowledge and give him/her some recognition, preferably in the form of academic credit, for what has been learned. Probably the most common means for permitting waiver of basic course requirements in speech communication has been the administration of screening tests in some form. The implications of this practice relative to equivalency testing for credit should be readily apparent. Sometimes demonstrated, proficiency in certain extracurricular activities has been the basis for determining readiness for advanced placement. In both these types of instances, and in others, however, the student has rarely been awarded credit.

This article reports on the feasibility of developing the College Level Examination Program tests in speech communication in the U.S. in 1974. The tests may help to reduce the rising costs of a college education. Equivalency credit offers lower costs to students as a recruitment appeal. Colleges and universities are afforded more efficient use of already limited funds by being able to reduce their basic section offerings and to concentrate their efforts and resources on more advanced speech communication courses.

This article focuses on the panel discussion on the topic of tenure sponsored by the Association for Communication Administration at the Southern States Communication Association convention in Biloxi, Mississippi on April 1979. The program was designed to provide a cross-section of views represented by speakers from a national professional faculty association, a state system administration, a local administration, and from non-tenured faculty members.

This article presents the speech of Mary Louise Gehring, associate dean of arts and sciences at Baylor University, on a seminar about women in administration, which was sponsored by the Association for Communication Administration at a convention in the U.S. Gehring presented a personal commentary on her college experiences as a successful administrator on several campuses.