b'MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGESLO #2 SLO #3LISTENING SPEAKINGCareer students will demonstrate proficiencyCareer students will demonstrate proficiency in listening in the following areas: in speaking in the following areas:1st Semester (Hours 1-15) A. Nonverbal A. Nonverbal2nd Semester (Hours 16-30) B. Summarization B. Use of Language3rd Semester (Hours 31-45) C. Follow-up Questions C. Content4th Semester (Hours 46-60) D. Presentation Listening D. Public SpeakingFigure 10.Listening and Speaking Taught Over Four Semesters (Initially referenced on page 42)Listening and speaking skills will be taught inThe Career and Public Speaking instructors were designated courses in every Career program.Atrained on using the rubric before implementation rubric will be used to assess students attainment ofbegan.This training was designed to calibrate the SLO #2 (Listening) and SLO #3 (Speaking).The QEPuse of the rubric among Career and Public Speaking Development Committee designed the ListeningInstructors.Rubric and Speaking Rubric (Appendix K) with advisement and oversight by persons academically qualified to make the necessary judgments in regard to the rubric design (i.e., Public Speaking instructors).The rubric design was largely based upon a standardized tool, The Competent Speaker Speech Evaluation Form and Manual.This instrument is a standardized test assessing public-speaking competencies at the higher-education level. The tool canA high percentage of communication is nonverbal be used to evaluate persuasive speeches,(Leathers, 1992; Miller, 2005); therefore, instructors first introduce students to the practice of communicating for testing-in or testing-out (placement)effectively through nonverbal means.As students purposes,asawayforinstructingprogress through their programs of study, Wood, and advising students, or to generateBruner, and Rosss (1976) scaffolding approach of assessment data for departmental andteaching listening and speaking will follow.Following nonverbal communication, students progress to institutional accountability. This tool haseffective workforce communication in the second been used successfully at a variety ofsemester and effective situational communication in institutions. the third semester.In the fourth semester, students -Morreale et al., 2018 learn to integrate, synthesize, and apply these skills This instrument is a standardized test assessing in SPT 1113 (Public Speaking I).52 MGCCC QEP 2019'