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elicitation

elicitation

7.7
Getting information or a reaction from people by asking questions
  • noun
  • /ɪˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : elicitación
  • The elicitation of feedback from the group helped improve the project's final outcome.
  • Elicitation Task
  • Free Elicitation
  • elicitation procedure

Examples

  • The teacher used a range of questions during the elicitation to encourage students to share their ideas.

  • Through careful elicitation, the researchers were able to gather valuable insights from the participants.

  • 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.

    Academic text (2008)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2008)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2012)
  • 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

prodding
vselicitation
10 4.1

Encouragement from someone who keeps asking you to do something

seeks to draw out responses instead of pushing repeatedly for action
coaxing
vselicitation
5 4.4

Gentle persuasion using praise or kind words to get someone to do something

aims to provoke information or responses rather than flatter or cajole
inducement
vselicitation
1 6.8

An action that makes something happen

is about provoking or drawing out a response rather than simply causing results
prompting
vselicitation
1 3.8

Encouraging someone to do something by suggesting it

draws out a response or information rather than persuading action
inducing
vselicitation
1 5.8

An act that makes something happen, often a change in the body like labor or sleep

aims to draw out information or behavior instead of merely creating effects
motivating
vselicitation
3.4

Helping someone want to do something by giving reasons or rewards

focuses on drawing out responses or information rather than giving incentives

Antonyms

181 4.0

Not speaking about something when people ask you

inhibition
  • Formal
3 5.8

A rule or law that stops something from happening

How Strong

provocation
58 7.2
elicitation
  • Specialized
7.7
prompting
1 3.8
query
35 3.7

Surface Forms

elicitation singular
elicitation plural

Morphology

elicitation = elicit (transparent) = elicit + ation

Standard noun formation from the verb 'elicit' using the productive noun-forming suffix '-ation', so the meaning 'the act of eliciting' is directly derived.

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.