The initial portion of the instrument elicited pertinent aspects of the subject's cultural, family, and educational history.
The first sets of questions in the survey instrument elicited information on the demographic characteristics of the respondents.
The instrument elicited respondents' background information (control variables), features of the work environment (independent variables) and job satisfaction and intent to remain on the job (dependent variables).
If any of the items included in the instrument elicited information on a particular attribute, we considered it covering that attribute, even if it was not reported on separately.
The survey instrument elicited demographic data, information on drug use patterns, HIV risk behavior, overdose experiences, interactions with the criminal justice system (including police and incarceration), and experience with health care.
Preference based instruments typically incorporate scoring algorithms which are based upon the preferences of a general population sample for the health and/or quality of life states defined by the instrument elicited using one or more valuation methods such as the visual analogue scale (VAS), time trade off (TTO), standard gamble (SG) and discrete choice experiments (DCE) [ 17, 18].
Since there has been little work to compare data gathered from the same population using different teaching practice instruments, we suggest gathering data using both the new instrument and a reliable and valid existing instrument to see how the instruments elicit teaching practices in similar or unique fashions.
These instruments elicit descriptive information about the effect of a disease or condition on various domains of health, ranging from things like vision and dexterity to social functioning and vitality.
Cross-cultural adaptation of instruments elicits standardized data that can be used in clinical practice, teaching, research, policy making and also facilitates the exchange of information within the international scientific community [ 1].
"Happily, it was just that kind of account that Harry Bicket, an English conductor closely associated with early-music groups and period-instrument players, elicited from the Met cast, chorus and orchestra".
