The Kentucky Comprehensive Listening Test is published by the Kentucky Listening Research Center and is designed for college students and adults, though tenth graders have successfully used the test. The most recent version was published in 1985. The KCLT is designed to overcome certain inherent difficulties in listening tests, in which the test measures intelligence rather than listening. The constructors of the KCLT note that research has proved these five factors to be separate and distinct and to have different configurations with other types of communicative abilities. Good rehearsal listeners do not need to take notes as much as others.
More women are good interpretative listeners than men.
Research continues in these various configurations. The Watson-Barker Listening Test , designed in 1984 to be used by secondary and college students as well as business professionals, consists of two comparable forms. The SWLT, which takes 45 minutes to administer, consists of 55 test questions. The test content, comprised of brief speeches, announcements, directions, descriptions, conversations, and statements designed to be of particular interest and relevance to students in higher education, and test questions are presented in videotape format. Answer sheets, on which examinees write the letter of the response that best represents the answer to each question, can be scored by hand or by computer.