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Assess classroom listening.
LCT-A: NU: Listening Comprehension Test– Adolescent: Normative Update Linda Bowers • Rosemary Huisingh • Carolyn LoGiudice AGES: 12‑0 through 17‑11 TESTING TIME: 35 to 40 minutes ADMINISTRATION: Individual
LCT-2: The Listening Comprehension Test 2 Linda Bowers • Rosemary Huisingh • Carolyn LoGiudice
AGES: 6-0 through 11-11 TESTING TIME: 35 minutes ADMINISTRATION: Individual
The Listening Comprehension Test 2 (LCT-2) assesses listening through natural classroom situations rather than evaluating listening through simple repetition or discrimination subtests. The tasks reveal students’ strengths and weaknesses in inte- grated language problem solving, reasoning, and comprehension of material presented auditorily. Because children need the basic skill of listening (receiving, attending to, interpreting, and responding to verbal messages and other cues) in order to succeed in school and in life, and because classroom listening is such an integrated process, each subtest on The Listening Comprehension Test 2 requires students to: • pay careful attention to what they hear • listen with a purpose in mind • remember what they hear well enough to think about it • avoid being impulsive in giving answers • express answers verbally The test models as closely as possible the type of listening required in the classroom. The student must determine what part of the message needs immediate attention, organize and understand the input, and plan appropriate responses. In order to respond, the student must integrate the communication skills of vocabulary and semantics, syntax and morphology, phonology, and thinking. SUBTESTS Subtest A: Main Idea —The student identifies the main idea after listening to a pas- sage read aloud by the examiner. The student must recall his background knowledge of the topic and process the overall meaning of the passage. Subtest B: Details —The student listens to a passage and answers a question about the details. The student must rely on grammar, vocabulary, and the semantics of the passage to comprehend the details. Subtest C: Reasoning —This subtest taps into higher-level cognitive skills. The stu- dent infers answers from information presented verbally. Subtest D: Vocabulary —The student gives a one-word synonym or a descriptive definition for a word heard in a passage. Subtest E: Understanding Messages —The student listens to a short message and answers two questions about it. COMPLETE LCT-2 KIT INCLUDES: Examiner’s Manual and 20 Test Forms. (©2006) $204.00 #34060AE LCT-2 Virtual Examiner’s Manual . . . . . . . . . . ........... 140.00 #34061 LCT-2 Test Forms (20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................ 55.00 #34060 LCT-2 Complete Kit
The LCT-A: NU evaluates a student’s listening comprehension skills. Teachers can use the results to help students improve their skills and behaviors in both the class- room and everyday listening situations. There are five subtests: Main Idea, Details, Reasoning, Vocabulary and Semantics, and Understanding Messages. Students are required to (a) pay careful attention to what they hear, (b) listen with a purpose in mind, and (c) remember what they hear well enough to think about it. Students must also avoid being impulsive in giving answers, and they must express answers verbally. The test can be used to identify students who have specific language impairments, plan interventions, and measure listening comprehension in research studies. FEATURES • Characteristics of the normative sample were stratified by age relative to region, gender, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic factors, as well as other critical variables, and are the same as those reported for the school-age population reported in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2017 (ProQuest, 2017). • Each item on the test was evaluated using both conventional item analysis to choose good items and differential item analyses to find and eliminate potentially biased items. • The Total Score was renamed the Listening Comprehension Index. This index is based on a sum of the subtest scaled scores rather than raw scores, and has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. The index gives equal weight to each of the subtests. • The Listening Comprehension Index has respectable floors and ceilings for assessment of the listening comprehension of examinees across adolescent ages and ability levels. • The average coefficient alpha is .94 for the Listening Comprehension Index. • The test was subjected to diagnostic accuracy analyses, which are particularly rig- orous techniques involving the computation of sensitivity, specificity, and receiver operating characteristic/area under the curve (ROC/AUC) statistic. The Listening Comprehension Index cutoff score of 92 resulted in a sensitivity of .71, a specificity of .79, and a ROC/AUC of .82 for differentiating students who have a specific lan- guage impairment from typically developing students. • The Examiner’s Manual was reorganized and rewritten to provide more detailed infor- mation on administration, interpretation, and statistical characteristics of the test. COMPLETE LCT-A: NU KIT INCLUDES: Examiner’s Manual and 25 Examiner Record Booklets in a sturdy storage box. (©2018) #34340 LCT-A: NU Complete Kit $194.00 #34341 LCT-A: NU Examiner Record Booklets (25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.00 #34342 LCT-A: NU Examiner’s Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . ............. 134.00 #34342E LCT-A: NU Virtual Examiner’s Manual . . . . . . . . . .......... 125.00
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