Effectiveness of the Implementation of Oral Examination to the Communication Skills of College Students in One Academic Institution in the Philippines

The implementation of oral examination in tertiary level in most courses is an appropriate tool to determine the students’ ability to communicate ideas in coherent and verbal sentences. This enhances the speakers’ communicative competence and other conversational skills. Oral examination has been implemented in the College Department of Franciscan College of the Immaculate Conception (FCIC) for the midterm and semi-final quarter. Thus, the study determined the level of implementation, the effectiveness of the oral examination to the communication skills, and the difficulties encountered during the implementation in the College Department of Franciscan College of the Immaculate Conception, Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines on the Academic Year 2016-2017. Two separate questionnaires were administered to randomly chosen 21 teachers and 379 college students. The level of the implementation of oral examination was effective to some students, except those who had problems in dealing with the oral examination. There was a significant difference among the level of effectiveness on the implementation of oral examination in terms of communication skills which implied that oral examination was an effective means of enhancing the speaking skills of some students but not on others. Further, there were difficulties encountered by the teachers and students during the implementation of oral examination.

Keywords – assessment, communication skills, effectiveness, implementation of oral examination