Besides, we use the user survey question to measure the understanding of user for each summarization version.
The remaining eight stories were non-mental control stories that measured the understanding of physical events.
It also included some demographic data and a final assessment test to measure the understanding of the form [see Additional file 2].
We used the most commonly used verbal counting measures, the 'how many' task, the 'give a number' task and the 'how high' task, measuring the understanding of one-to-one correspondence, counting and cardinality [ 8, 18, 44].
For this study our objectives were to: 1) Develop and validate a survey to measure patient and surrogate decision-maker understanding of resuscitation terminology and resuscitation options, and 2) Use the validated survey to measure the understanding of resuscitation terminology and resuscitation options in a cohort of ICU patients and surrogates.
With the purpose of measuring the understanding of basic statistics concepts that students brought into the genetics course, and later, assessing the knowledge gained from curricular activities provided throughout the course, we implemented an assessment instrument in a pretest/posttest manner.
The regular measurement of outcome and process measures, and the understanding of areas for better performance, are likely to have aided improvement in this project and are central to quality improvement methodology.
It has now yielded to a precise set of measures, on the understanding that two crucial ones are left out.
Although the highly acclaimed program is over a decade old, there are as yet no external measures of the understanding that pupils gain -- a strange lapse for dissident educators challenging state standards.
It made me think of what Obama had said about implementing some measures with the understanding that if even one action stopped one tragedy, it was worth it.
