Improving Communicative Competence: Validation of a Social Skills Training Workshop
Description:
The effectiveness of a social skills training workshop was assessed by comparing the rated competence of participants in an Interpersonal Skills Training Program (a 2-session, 12-hour workshop) to the rated competence of nonparticipants. This comparison was operationalized through a study design of the pre- and posttesting of 12 experimental and 22 control subjects. The assessment instruments used were Spitzberg's Conversational Skills Rating Scale (CSRS) and Curran's Simulated Social Interacti…
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Date:
August 1986
Creator:
Dawson, Pamela J. (Pamela Jane)