elicitation
- noun
- /ɪˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/
- Specialized
- The elicitation of feedback from the group helped improve the project's final outcome.
- Elicitation Task
- Free Elicitation
- elicitation procedure
Examples
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The teacher used a range of questions during the elicitation to encourage students to share their ideas.
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Through careful elicitation, the researchers were able to gather valuable insights from the participants.
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We used a free elicitation approach to help us understand what students expect in a university class.
Academic text (2008) -
To examine the expectations that students hold toward college classes, we used a free elicitation approach.
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Two SLPs provided training on the recruitment and elicitation procedures.
Academic text (2014) -
We use a free elicitation approach to capture the salient expectations of 271 students.
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The prompt-based elicitation method has also been infused in writing instruction in the classroom.
Academic text (2015) -
In the first elicitation, children produced a comparable number of paradigmatic and syntagmatic responses.
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Another goal was to compare our protocol to elicitation procedures used in other studies of expository discourse.
Academic text (2014) -
In this investigation, a single elicitation technique was incorporated (i.e., response to writing prompt).
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
Encouragement from someone who keeps asking you to do something
Gentle persuasion using praise or kind words to get someone to do something
An action that makes something happen
Encouraging someone to do something by suggesting it
An act that makes something happen, often a change in the body like labor or sleep
Helping someone want to do something by giving reasons or rewards
Antonyms
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Etymology
The word elicitation comes from the Latin verb elicere, which means 'to draw out'. So, elicitation is the act of drawing out a response, information, or a behavior from someone.