Re "Prostate Cancer Decisions Often Based on Fallacies" (July 4): Although many patients make educated decisions, a huge number have minimal recall and comprehension of the details of their problems, their treatment options and the risks and benefits of their choices.
The automatically generated sentences have minimal redundancy and comprehension is required to correctly score them as being true or false.
Every college freshman must meet a minimal level of English comprehension, and it's the only foreign language tested.
However, opportunities for English learners to collaboratively practice reading comprehension are minimal, and due to resource constraints and a lack of accurate evaluation methods, English instructors rarely assess student literacy effectively.
First, although spoken language comprehension shows minimal age-related change, except when working memory demands increase (Waters and Caplan 2001; Waters and Caplan 2005), an absence of behavioral change does not necessarily mean an absence of neural change.
The questionnaire, prepared by an international expert team, focused on conceptual clarity, the broad capturing of normal and impaired variants of expressing identity, ease of comprehension, and minimal confounding by factors such as culture, socioeconomics, age, and gender by developing appropriate (i.e. "fair") item formulations (see below).
A fundamental step in understanding how cells function is the comprehension of the minimal gene set required to sustain life.
They argued that a minimal or threshold amount of general comprehension is needed to benefit from navigation; even if students find the relevant information through navigation, they might lack the ability to build a coherent model of the content.
We performed iterative cognitive interviewing and pilot testing for each questionnaire item and for the final instrument to ensure question comprehension, appropriate response options and minimal burden.
