By allowing the public to pretest a building, a better result can evolve prior to construction.

The animal disorder allows researchers to pretest drugs and other treatments before they are tried in patients.

I insisted that we pretest and post-test every commercial, especially TV commercials, to see whether they were effective.

"You may find it uncomfortable, but we find it vital to pretest candidates for important jobs."

That one-thirty-five has been especially modified to pretest various experiments and equipment for the low gravity of shuttle flights.

He also believed successful advertising depended on measuring people's reaction, and he developed a formula to pretest advertisements.

Pretest the spray by applying it to an inconspicuous part of the garment before using it on the stain.

A useful method for checking a questionnaire and making sure it is accurately capturing the intended information is to pretest among a smaller subset of target respondents.

Cover the stain with a rubbing alcohol compress (dilute alcohol with 2 parts water for acrylic and modacrylic and pretest its effects).

Dr. Wilber wants to pretest Olympic athletes in Beijing, something he did for several athletes competing in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

We conducted pretests by phone with officials from Washington State to pretest the funeral home survey, Virginia for the cemetery survey, Kansas for the crematory survey, Mississippi and Louisiana for the sales of pre-need plans survey, and South Carolina for the third party sellers survey.

The examination consists of 130 questions and 10 pretest questions.

Thus a pretest is needed to define a possibly existing preference to one compartment.

In algebra class the teacher began by handing back the pretests the class had taken the day before.

Each section of each lesson is surrounded by pretests and post-tests.

"This is a pretest, students," the teacher announced.

As pretest, the participants of the study had to write a letter about the 1992 U.S. presidential election campaign.

Molochai sat through it without a pretest.

The hall burst into a rear of pretest and rage, but the Organian's voice soared above it easily.

I got a ninety five on one of the pretests and Laura hung it up on the refrigerator."

A pretest of items to obtain information regarding clarity, difficulty levels, timing, feasibility, and special administrative situations.

What about using a proxy pretest?

This section was considerably refined based on the state of art at the time of the survey and on the pretests undertaken in China.

In the final year, students for secondary and higher secondary board examinations are selected by pretest and selection tests.

Distress was low at each time point, and declined from pretest to post-disclosure, remaining stable and low thereafter.

Pre-Testing - Prior to the teaching of a lesson or concept, a student can complete an online pretest to determine their level of knowledge.

Broken into tiny modules, the math starts with a diagnostic pretest and then explains each problem with audio and text.

In their experiment, participants gave pretest, posttest, and group consensus recommendations on three choice dilemma item-types (risky, neutral, or cautious).

When I took the pretest to measure my innate lie-detecting capabilities, I could see the microexpressions in about 70 percent of the examples.

The Uniform Combined State Law Examination consists of 100 multiple-choice questions and 10 pretest questions.

The eluent is optimized in small scale pretests, often using thin layer chromatography (TLC) with the same stationary phase.

An Austrian corps even penetrated into some provinces of the Electorate; all this afforded Napoleon a pretest for going to the aid of his allies.

She took a pretest for the coursework at a community college, but when administrators asked her to come to the office for a chat, she did not need to ask why.

Invited to a friend's birthday party during one of my pretest periods, I had to munch a hospital-issued sugar cookie while the rest of the guests ate chocolate cheesecake.

Marrs reported similar gains on pre-post assessment in biology, using the Hake rubric, defined as (posttest% - pretest%)/(100 - pretest.

Students in the treatment and comparison schools took a pretest at the beginning of the 2008-09 school year and took the same test as a post-test at the end of the year.