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KMID : 1036820190240020332
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
2019 Volume.24 No. 2 p.332 ~ p.342
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Fictional Narratives Assessment: Social Validation Study
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Yoon Hwan-Hee
Kim Hyo-Seon
Kim Jung-Mee
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study explored the social validation of narrative assessment.
Methods: A total of 60 laypersons, teachers, and speech language pathologists (SLPs) used interval scaling to rate the quality of narratives produced by 16 third-grade children. They were asked to write their subjective criteria about what contributes to narrative quality evaluation. They also completed a 20-item questionnaire. They assigned a number from a 7-point scale to indicate the extent to which 20 items influenced their quality ratings. The 20 items related to either vocabulary, story grammar, syntax, fluency, or sparkle. ‘Good narratives’ and ‘poor narratives’ were compared on dimensions of the number of C-units and story grammar analysis.
Results: Agreement among laypersons, teachers and SLPs was found for a subset of ‘good narratives’ and ‘poor narratives’, which constituted 50% of the total narratives. ‘Good narratives’ have more C-units and story grammar elements than ‘poor narratives’. The responses to questions about ‘good narrative quality’ fell into 12 categories based on similarity of content. Coherence, story grammar, Creativity & Imagination, and characteristics concerning speech were ranked high by all listener groups. Relative to these aspects, grammar was ranked low.
Conclusion: The judgements of the overall narrative quality were related to textual-level dimensions of form and content but had little relation to sentential-level dimensions. Laypersons and teachers generally agreed on the criteria for evaluating narratives. They paid more attention to creativity and imagination than SLPs.
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KEYWORD
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Narratives, Social validity, Listener’s judgement, Good narratives, Poor narratives
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