Typing in the more general term, "heart," would result in the following types of sites.

The word or phrase test takers used for their query would provide the basis for scoring this task (with a more precise phrase such as "atrial septal defect treatment" resulting in a higher score than "treating heart"). The program might also track if test takers refined their search based on the results each search yielded. If a test taker did not perform well on this task, other less open-ended tasks might be presented. These might include multiple-choice questions that asked test takers to select from the choices provided the best term to search for specified information. Questions that focused on general versus specific categories might provide additional diagnostic information. Another possibility would be to present a similar search task that was not computer based, such as locating specified information in the Yellow Pages and seeing if the test taker could successfully complete that task. The goal of any of these or additional follow-up tasks would be to try and identify underlying areas of difficulty that might be contributing to poor performance on the computer search task.