Behavioral Tests

Unfortunately, a significant number of these assessment instruments are not even available for purchase online. The ones I could find have been provided and the ones I couldn't have been given a description.  

Stoelting Steadiness Tester

This instrument measures body control after exposure to stress (public speaking); It was created by Herbert Gurnee. Located at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1416113 This link will take you to a description of the test.

Social Performance Rating Scale

Created by Fydrich, Chambless, Buergener and Beazley(1998); good validity and reliability. In this instrument, the participant is video-taped while interacting in certain roles. A trained tester then records information on five areas of behavior including: "gaze (i.e. eye contact), voice quality (i.e. voice volume, tone), level of discomfort (e.g. trembling, fidgeting), conversation flow (i.e. initiation, maintenance, stalling), and length (e.g. turn-taking behavior, monopolizing conversation, length of the person’s contributions) which are then combined to produce a total score"(Harb, Eng, Zaider & Heimberg 2003). 

The Behavioral Checklist

In this assessment, a trained observer views the subjects for 30 seconds and then notes the presence or non presence of 27 different speaking behaviors that are characteristic of speech anxiety.
NOTE: articles for this instrumentt could only be found on Google, not on Worldcat or any other academic database I searched. 

Willingness to Communicate Scale

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