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FORENSIC EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES PROJECT

The Guild of Forensic educators has initiated a Forensic Educational 
Outcomes Project.  I ask all those who are members of  CEDA-l to work with 
us to carefully document what forensics can accomplish.  Kent Cobert, Bill 
Hill, and many others have agreed to assist with this project. Please let us 
know if you wish to help. The project will search for any and all evidence 
that will allow us to better understand
what forensics does for students, educators, and the public sphere.  We are 
working to secure funding for the project, and are looking for undergraduate 
and graduate students who wish to write papers, theses, and dissertations on 
the educational outcomes of forensics (debate and individual events).  
I believe several of the postings on CEDA-L provide us with some proof of 
the benefits of academic debate.   I ask that you contact me, Bill Hill, 
Michael Bartanen, and the other members of the Guild of Forensic educators 
with suggestions and advice.  Here is the announcement.
David Frank

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Announcement of the Forensics Education Outcomes Project
Initiated by the Guild of Forensic Educators

	Forensics can be a wonderful educational activity deserving of widespread 
support.  In order to better guarantee this support, the Guild of Forensic 
Educators is launching a project to document the educational outcomes 
produced by an education in forensics.  We hope to include forensic 
students, educators, communication scholars, and all those who wish to 
carefully research the values, attitudes, and behaviors that are the result 
of participation in intercollegiate academic debate and individual events 
speaking.  We intend to use all appropriate modes of inquiry in our effort.
	The assessment project will build on the Sedalia (1974) and the Evanston 
(1984) forensic conferences and generate a state of the art description and 
assessment of the forensic activity.  In particular, the project will 
feature five objectives.

1.  The development of an extensive annotated bibliography on forensics, 
debate, and individual events.
2.  An identification of the various systems that affect forensics.
3.  A complete census of those who are involved in forensics.
4.  A survey and description of  the modes of inquiry that will yield the 
educational outcomes of forensics.
5.  A catalog of the educational goals and outcomes of forensics.

	The Guild of Forensic Educators has launched this project in response to a 
number of calls for research into the educational outcomes of participation 
in forensics.  We invite  those who are interested to participate in this 
project.  We are hopeful that all the members of the forensics community 
will consider themselves to be part of the research project. We hope you 
will contact the project leaders and Guild members with suggestions and 
contributions.

	We intend to meet at SCA to discuss and finalize assignments.  Our goal is 
to finish the project during the 1995-1996 academic year.  Again, we are 
open to and asking for support from those who are dedicated to forensics and 
our shared goal of creating articulate citizens.

Project Coordinator
Dr. Bill Hill
Associate Professor and Head
Communication Studies
University North Carolina, 
Charlotte, NC  28223
Phone: 1-704-547-4217
Fax: 1-704-547-3218

Project Facilitator
Dr. David A. Frank
Associate Professor and
Director of Forensics
Robert D. Clark Honors College
University of Oregon  97403
Phone: 1-503-346-4198
Fax: 1-503-346-2222
EMAIL: DFRANK@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Archive created by Jonathan Stanton (jonathan@cs.jhu.edu)
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