And students are also asked questions aimed at eliciting how well their teachers are instructing them.
The authors write, "The questioning of officers is often cursory and aimed at eliciting favorable statements justifying the officer's actions rather than seeking truth".
In our usage, the word reflects the America-centric perception that everything Kim Jong-il does is aimed at eliciting a reaction from Washington.
The Conference Board's consumer confidence index, which is based on a monthly survey of Americans aimed at eliciting their views of their own finances and expectations for the overall economy, fell to 116.5 in July from 118.9 in June.
Leaked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor including notes from a meeting with Pentagon officials confirmed US-UK training of Syrian opposition forces since 2011 aimed at eliciting "collapse" of Assad's regime "from within".
Some have speech that is virtually incomprehensible to outsiders, while questions aimed at eliciting their grammatical knowledge - like the one posed at the introduction to this article - induce only bafflement.
Stern, now 82, seems to anticipate this criticism in the preface, where he tells us that he is tempted to say "this is an old man's book," a "geriatric self-inoculation" aimed at eliciting a charitable reading.
Those seeing only the stereotype of a dour Scot would be surprised, were they to spend time in his press conferences, by his wit and a shrewd ability to weigh up and deal with the inevitable questions aimed at eliciting a back-page headline.
The questionnaire includes then three blocks of questions aimed at eliciting weights.
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein complex (Env) is the focus of vaccine development aimed at eliciting humoral immunity.
The System Perspectives Scope is a tool aimed at eliciting and sharing analytic perspectives on social ecological systems change.
