‘often we begin with a pretest to assess how much a child knows about a subject’
‘The participants were permitted to go through their normal warm-up routine and take as many as 10 shots before beginning the pretest.’
‘As mentioned earlier, the comparison group includes nine eligible couples that completed pretests and follow-up tests, but did not participate in treatment.’
‘We used different videos in the copying experiment than in the pretest, so that test females had not previously seen these stimuli.’
‘At pretest, we assessed health-related behavior with self-report questionnaires.’
‘The pretest included a test of knowledge in the engineering management domain and a survey of demographic factors.’
‘In response, teachers spend large amounts of time having their students take pretests in preparation for the standardized test.’
‘At the end of last year, her class, the ‘smart people’ class, was given a pretest and a review packet.’
‘Students who did well on the problem-solving portion of the pretest also did significantly better on the post tests.’
‘Phase II was a pretest in which a small group of pharmacists completed the Project and evaluated it.’
‘In spelling, students completed a pretest on Monday and a final test on Friday.’
verb
[with object]
Carry out a preliminary test or trial of.
‘prior to its use, the questionnaire was pretested on two groups of trainees’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘Before pretesting the questionnaire, 13 focus group sessions were conducted with children of a similar background.’
‘Colleagues in academia, government, a non-government organization, and industry pretested both questionnaires for content, format and readability, validity, and reliability.’
‘The questionnaire was pretested in three steps.’
‘Answers will come faster and the research will cost less if the clinical work is focused on strategies that have been pretested in models.’
‘All diagrams and the text used in the booklet were pretested to ensure readability, acceptability, and relevance to the target group.’
‘The items were pretested and refined for contextual and content validity.’
‘Scale items were pretested on 200 students prior to administration to 1,002 students aged 13-16 years.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘In 1989, the self-inspection document and procedure for implementation were pretested using eight pharmacist volunteers.’
‘The analgesic profile and other data collection tools were pretested at 7 hospital sites in 3 phases.’
‘Electrical equipment has to be pretested and approved for use in the room.’
‘It is important to pretest some of the materials.’
‘The majority of physicians fail a simple critical appraisal pretest we give before our teaching programs.’
‘It is not feasible to pretest disposable pulmonary artery and bladder catheters, which must be sterile when inserted.’
‘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.’
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