At the beginning of the game, participants were first given written and verbal instructions and asked five questions probing their comprehension of the game.
The 12 scripted verbal probes testing comprehension and recall of selected items were incorporated within the cognitive interview protocol to address key issues during survey development.
To gain possible comparisons across developmental ages from childhood to adulthood on this issue (other than location change in the Sally-Anne story and content change in the Smarties test) and to have a workable design to truly probe counterfactual comprehension in reading (other than the cognitive development limitation of the participants), 12-year-old participants were recruited.
Therefore methods of comprehension probing were utilised.
The following are examples of the verbal probes used: 1) Paraphrase: Can you please repeat this question in your own words?; 2) Comprehension probe: What does the term "blues" mean to you? (referring to an item in the CESD); 3) General probes: How did you arrive at your answer?
IDENT probes basic auditory comprehension through object identification: patients are confronted with four objects (cup, fork, knife and plate) and are asked to take or point to one of the objects.
The Token Test of the Aachen Aphasia Test probes both auditory comprehension as well as more general cognitive abilities: patients are asked to identify geometrical objects, varying in shape, size and colour.
Reanalysis processes may play a role in producing selective activation to complex sentences, as increased activation in LIFG has been observed in studies that manipulated the difficulty of a postsentence comprehension probe (Love et al. 2006; Caplan, Chen, et al. 2008).
Our objective was to assess the English and Urdu language versions of the survey for comprehension through probing, to interpret qualitative data and key themes, and to identify problems with questions and responses while comparing issues that emerged among each group, and to make revisions.
They found that a test battery probing spelling, speaking rate, sentence comprehension and receptive vocabulary abilities successfully placed the 70 people in their study into the appropriate diagnostic category with an error rate of 3%.
Interviewer training addressed qualitative research basics, interview skills including, building rapport, posing open-ended questions, probing, and active listening, and comprehension of the study research questions and interview guide.
