Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Education and Communications: [header] How to evaluate speaking skills [title] Define a goal for your assessment or assignment. [step] The goal is what you want your students to achieve through the assessment. Having a goal helps you to decide on criteria and the type of assessment or assessments you want to use.

Ending1: [substeps] To define a goal, you will need to define an aspect you and your students want to emphasize. This is the number of aspects of speech or language that you will discuss in your assessment. Ending2: A basic goal will be to be proficient at some aspect of speech. [substeps] As part of your assessment, you will be responsible for stating the main message or hypotheses of your students working on a particular subject as well as determining how certain students are doing well in school in particular areas or topics. Ending3: [substeps] For instance, your goal might be to have students learn how to organize and present information, which would be a good goal for a presentation. Alternatively, maybe your goal is to have students demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary and syntax, in which case a variety of assessments would be appropriate. Ending4: [title] Determine what age group you would like your students to learn from. [step] Instead of having others grade them based on their ages and skills, you can focus your assessment on adults.

Answer format: ending1/ending2/ending3/ending4