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单词 pretest
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Definition of pretest in English:

pretest

noun ˈpriːtɛst
  • A preliminary test or trial.

    often we begin with a pretest to assess how much a child knows about a subject
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
verb ˈpriːtɛst
[with object]
  • Carry out a preliminary test or trial of.

    prior to its use, the questionnaire was pretested on two groups of trainees
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
 
 
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