For instance, in the second grade, each text per se was not sufficient to build an adequate number of items to accurately assess comprehension; however, the summation of multiple texts enabled such an assessment (see Appendix A and Appendix B).
The other five passages were designed to assess comprehension of informational text (e.g., expository passages, instructions, and manuals).
These interviews assessed comprehension, refined the wording, optimized the response scales, supported the appropriateness of the recall period, and confirmed the content validity of the items.
Further development may provide intensive care unit healthcare workers with a new device to assess comprehension and attention capacities of patients.
We assessed comprehension by measuring accuracy in an elicited imitation task (Experiment 1), and responses in a looking-preference comprehension task (Experiments 2 4).
In such applications speech recognition can be used to track the reading position of the child, detect oral reading miscues, assessing comprehension of the text being read by estimating if the prosodic structure of the speech is appropriate to the discourse structure of the story, or by engaging the child in interactive dialogs to assess and train comprehension.
Several reading comprehension tests have been constructed to assess comprehension as a function of age or academic grade, so it is possible to compare a student's performance with his/her normative group (e.g., Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, 4th Ed., Karlsen & Gardner, 1996; Woodcock et al. 2004).
The interviews were structured to evaluate the caregiver question/answer process, assess comprehension and refine question wording, optimize the response scales, confirm appropriateness of the recall period, confirm the content validity of the items, and confirm there were no missing concepts.
We also assessed comprehension of a brochure about dry mouth.
