✅ Evaluate. “And verbal reporting and protocol analysis also can be embedded in an intervention study, as a process-oriented measure of student learning, to evaluate whether, and how effectively, a reading intervention supports knowledge transfer.” (Cho, B., 2022, p. 401) Verbal protocols remind me of the portion of the QRI assessment that asks students what they know about a topic before reading, and then to retell and answer comprehension questions after the reading. There is a scoring sheet that determines what kind of answer is acceptable. However, in the QRI, the evaluator is allowed to encourage the student to keep talking by asking “what else?” Is this still considered a verbal protocol analysis?