The test

How the retelling was collected.

The part

What it is

Tell it once to several people who do not know it, wait a week, and ask them to tell it back. Recorded rather than summarised.

People outside the organisation are a harder and more useful test than employees, who have heard it more than once.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.

Participants
How many were asked to retell it.
Number shared type
Gap
How long between hearing and retelling.
Duration shared type
Who
Internal or external, since external is the harder test.
Entity shared type

The other elements in the retelling test

The survivals

What appeared in most of the retellings.

Learn

The losses

What disappeared, and what was distorted.