We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a pharmaceutical labeling strategy intended to improve comprehension of a teratogen warning.
This latter task in particular is closely analogous to that faced by human language learners, involving segmentation of morphemes, words, and phrases from observable auditory input, mapping of speech signals onto intended environmental referents, comprehension of questions, and content-addressed search capabilities for discovering the answers to these questions.
These labels typically include small illustrations that are intended to enhance comprehension.
Tortured by the silence, I set a subtweet-y away message, then a series of them, all intended only for his comprehension.
Nupedia's reading comprehension was intended for high-school graduates, and Bomis set its goal: "To set a new standard for breadth, depth, timeliness and lack of bias, and in the fullness of time to become the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the history of humankind".
There are several methods for improving comprehension and scientifically intended understanding of the messages.
The current version of the University Entrance English test consists of nine sections intended to measure general reading comprehension and writing skills.
In the Phoenix district high schools, 3,600 9th and 10th graders with low reading scores now spend a double period, 110 minutes a day, in a program called Read 180, rotating through activities intended to help them develop reading comprehension and fluency.
Consider, for example, a passage entitled "An Old China Test," intended as preparation for questions on reading comprehension.
The question of cross-cultural comprehension of pictograms as scientifically intended is illustrated by whether these are understood in the same way by an illiterate South African farm worker as by a Finnish professor.
