Educational evaluation on abilities of logical thinking and person perception to support speech communications

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23530887
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: The National Center for University Entrance Examinations
• Principal Investigator: UCHIDA Teruhisa 独立行政法人大学入試センター, 研究開発部, 准教授 (10280538)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OHTSU Tatsuo 独立行政法人大学入試センター, 研究開発部, 教授 (10203829) ; ITO Kei 独立行政法人大学入試センター, 研究開発部, 准教授 (60332144) ; UCHIDA Chiharu 共栄大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (20460553)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 教育評価 / 音声 / コミュニケーション / リスニングテスト / 対人認知 / 性格特性 / 声質

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In recent years, the globalizing society demands more sophisticated abilities to communicate directly with the people from different countries. The current research examined abilities required for the dialogic situations and conducted studies on test development in order to evaluate speech communication abilities. During this research project, the following three phases were conducted: 1) historical analysis and evaluation on the English listening comprehension tests of the National Center Test, 2) constructions of a quantitative model to represent relationship between characteristics of speech sound and impressions of the speaker’s personality, and 3) experiments to evaluate English listening testing utilizing converted speech sounds whose fundamental frequencies were changed.

Free Research Field

教育系心理学