Download This tool may be used by faculty or by students to score peers. From Felder, R. M., & Brent, R. M. (2010). Hard assessment of soft skills. Chemical Journal of Engineering Education, 44(1), 63–64.
Download Tool for technical students or workers to use to self-assess their communication skills. From Decker, A., & Egert, C. A. (2015, October). Is this thing on? Determining comfort level with communication skills in a technical discipline. In proceedings of the 45th Annual Frontiers in Education
Download A high-level overview of four key steps to creating communication curricula for technical programs From Burge, J. E., Anderson, P. V., Carter, M., Gannod, G. C., & Vouk, M. A. (2012). First Steps Toward Integrating Communication Instruction Throughout Computer Science and Software Engineering Curricula. The ASEE
Download A list that instructors may use and adapt to define communication outcomes for their own technical programs. From Burge, J. E., Anderson, P. V., Carter, M., Gannod, G. C., & Vouk, M. A. (2012). First Steps Toward Integrating Communication Instruction Throughout Computer Science and Software Engineering
Several questions that technician instructors may use and adapt to their own employers.
Detailed rubric focused on 13 different features of presentations.
A list of the various kinds of communication skills needed in IT fields.
A set of pre-publication draft chapters from an upcoming book by project advisor Dr. Will Tyson of the University of South Florida. These chapters are full of the kinds of real-world reactions that secondary educators are likely to hear from students, employers, and fellow instructors