The quiz questions assessed ability to apply knowledge to problem solving (so-called "traditional" questions) and ability to explain the concepts that were used ("conceptual" questions).
Cognitive testing covered four domains: linguistic understanding (40 questions), spatial recognition (identifying geometric shapes), general knowledge (40 questions) and ability to follow mechanical instructions (problems presented as diagrams requiring knowledge of mechanics and basic physics).
On completion of the questionnaire, the interviewer left the room to enable the researcher to conduct a cognitive interview to assess participant understanding, ease of responding, relevance of questions and ability to respond.
Continuous exposure variables were split into quintiles, quartiles or tertiles depending upon the variable in question and the ability to fit a model (see Tables).
In your hands you have courage, confidence, the ability to ask questions, and the ability to keep people's attention for a couple of minutes, which is all it takes.
"These include openness to others and to new information, tolerance for ambiguity, flexibility, curiosity, the ability to ask good questions, and the ability to quickly discern pattern".
Some faculty members appreciated the collaboration among the faculty, particularly because of the "ability to ask each other questions," and the ability "to contact my team at any time".
It implies that students with high ability level failed to answer to easy questions and low ability students succeeded on extremely difficult items (de Ayala, 2009).
This question of temperament and ability might be the main reason so few people write both poetry and fiction.
"But particularly when you put him up against Gore, you can question his experience and ability to lead".
