0 a test that is done on a product, piece of equipment, etc. to make sure it works before it is sold or used:
The company was advised to carry out pretests on all electrical goods.
1 to do a test on a product, piece of equipment, etc. to make sure it works before it is sold or used:
Additionally, it is important to distinguish their pretest results from their posttest results that were observed after explicit training, not naturalistic learning.
A description of the situation ex ante (pretest) never happened, and there was no control group.
The typical pretest, posttest, and two follow-up intervals 4 - 6 months apart may not detect the more time-sensitive, episodic, and nonlinear nature of behavior change.
The participants first completed the kanji pretest and the vocabulary strategy questionnaire.
In addition, pretest differences occurred on different measures across the two studies, further complicating the comparison.
No studies incorporated independent review of adequacy of pretest workup, diagnosis, or contribution of the test to the management decision.
On pretest, colloquial and standard letter names were rarely reported, both in the intervention and in the comparison groups.
Three demonstration trials and three practice trials preceded eight pretest trials.
