Assessing Motivation to Communicate - National Communication ...

Assessing Motivation to Communicate:Willingness to Communicate andPersonal Report of Communication ApprehensionThis program includes two standardized and tested instruments to be used in assessing motivation to communicate at thehigher education level. The instruments were developed and tested by James McCroskey and are included in this program alongwith reference materials to inform their use. This program and the instruments it contains may be used: (a) to assess two dimensionsof the motivational domain of students; (b) for testing-in or testing-out (placement) purposes; (c) as a tool for instructingand advising students; and (d) to generate assessment data for departmental or institutional accountability.The author/editor acknowledges the contributions to this program of James McCroskey, who developed the instrumentscontained here, as well as the efforts of many communication scholars who tested and used these instruments over many years.The efforts on the annotated bibliography of research assistant, Robert Hrdlickha, are also gratefully acknowledged. The technologicalsupport of Shawn Morgan of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs provided the electronic versions of thetwo instruments that are included with this manual. Philip Backlund of Central Washington University, in his role as chair of theNCA Assessment Division, both encouraged and supported the development of this second edition.NCA Non-Serial Publication SeriesGust Yep, EditorSan Francisco State UniversityThe NCA Non-serial Publications (NSP) Program publishes book-length projects focusing on theoretical and/or pedagogicalissues related to the study and practice of human communication in a variety of contexts. Projects grounded in social scientific,interpretive, critical, performance, and rhetorical approaches and methodologies are included. Diverse views of communicationranging from microscopic (e.g., social cognition, affect and emotion in communication) to macroscopic (e.g., public discourse,systems of representation) are also included. Topics that have been central to the history of the discipline as well as those thathave been marginalized and excluded in the discipline are included as are projects with an inclusive, interdisciplinary, and socialjustice agenda.