The Curtin University Discourse Protocol – Adolescent version (CUDP-A) is a freely available discourse protocol specifically designed to assess adolescent discourse skills. The protocol guides the elicitation and scoring of four monologic discourse genres: personal recount, expository (informative), persuasive, and fictional narrative. The protocol contains a scoring guide to characterise word to whole-text level language features (guided by Coelho, 2007). A recent publication by Lizz Hill and her PhD supervisory team (Hill, Claessen, Whitworth & Boyes 2020 ) provides a large sample of adolescent reference data for the CUDP-A scoring protocol (across 160 adolescents between 12 to 15 years old).

The CUDP-A was designed, developed, and evaluated by Lizz Hill, Dr Mary Claessen, Associate Professor Anne Whitworth, and Dr Mark Boyes as part of Lizz’s PhD thesis. Additional information about Lizz’s thesis and links to her publications are available through this website. Please use the search bar at the top of this page.