Intended for teachers and administrators who wish to assess student oral communication needs before designing an appropriate program, this guide provides a review of tests for measuring acts of speaking and listening. The guide surveys and discusses procedures for assessing speaking and listening skills among school children and focuses on technical issues of measurement and pragmatic questions of administrative feasibility. The first section provides a review and critique of procedures for assessing oral communication skills. The second section reviews 45 oral communication assessment instruments, including the California Achievement Test for Listening, Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills, Metropolitan Achievement Tests, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress Pilot Test of Speaking and Listening. Appendixes contain standards for effective oral communication programs, and criteria for evaluating instruments and procedures for assessing speaking and listening. (HTH)