often we begin with a pretest to assess how much a child knows about a subject
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We used different videos in the copying experiment than in the pretest, so that test females had not previously seen these stimuli.
In response, teachers spend large amounts of time having their students take pretests in preparation for the standardized test.
The participants were permitted to go through their normal warm-up routine and take as many as 10 shots before beginning the pretest.
At pretest, we assessed health-related behavior with self-report questionnaires.
Students who did well on the problem-solving portion of the pretest also did significantly better on the post tests.
As mentioned earlier, the comparison group includes nine eligible couples that completed pretests and follow-up tests, but did not participate in treatment.
The pretest included a test of knowledge in the engineering management domain and a survey of demographic factors.
In spelling, students completed a pretest on Monday and a final test on Friday.
At the end of last year, her class, the ‘smart people’ class, was given a pretest and a review packet.
Phase II was a pretest in which a small group of pharmacists completed the Project and evaluated it.
verbˈpriːtɛst
[with object]
Carry out a preliminary test or trial of.
预测试；预先试验
prior to its use, the questionnaire was pretested on two groups of trainees
这份调查问卷在正式使用之前，让两组实习生预先试做过。
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All diagrams and the text used in the booklet were pretested to ensure readability, acceptability, and relevance to the target group.
Exposed subjects could not be pretested for normality or prescreened for confounding diseases or exposures to other agents; but neither factor was found at the time of study.
All test questions are pretested and reviewed for ambiguity and bias by trained testing professionals.
The questionnaire was pretested with family practice patients in Kingston and found appropriate for the Canadian context.
Electrical equipment has to be pretested and approved for use in the room.
Colleagues in academia, government, a non-government organization, and industry pretested both questionnaires for content, format and readability, validity, and reliability.
The instrument was pretested in 1993 with approximately one dozen telephone calls to newspapers not selected in the final sample from across the United States.
The questionnaire was pretested in three steps.
The analgesic profile and other data collection tools were pretested at 7 hospital sites in 3 phases.
It is important to pretest some of the materials.
The knowledge test was pretested on 15 subjects with heart failure and was revised on the basis of their evaluation of clarity and ease of understanding.
The simulation was pretested with 10 business school students in both cultures to ensure the clarity of the description and the appropriateness of the negotiation setting.
In 1989, the self-inspection document and procedure for implementation were pretested using eight pharmacist volunteers.
The majority of physicians fail a simple critical appraisal pretest we give before our teaching programs.
Through considerable pretesting, RMC-Cemex designed concretes that met the specified criteria but also had a low temperature gain, a high compressive strength, and a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
Answers will come faster and the research will cost less if the clinical work is focused on strategies that have been pretested in models.
Before pretesting the questionnaire, 13 focus group sessions were conducted with children of a similar background.
It is not feasible to pretest disposable pulmonary artery and bladder catheters, which must be sterile when inserted.
Scale items were pretested on 200 students prior to administration to 1,002 students aged 13-16 years.
The items were pretested and refined for contextual and content validity.