foretest

plural foretests

1. A test conducted or given beforehand; a preliminary test conducted before the inception of an experiment or evaluation.

   This procedure provided a foretest, inspection period, and aftertest, and each 5 underwent one such trial series.

   1964, Perceptual and Motor Skills

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   Even if he had found positive transfer effects, one could have attributed the gain to the practice effect during the foretest rather than to the improvement of memory per se.

   1972, Morris E. Eson, Psychological foundations of education

   The children who made very low ascendancy scores in the foretest were then trained by the experimenter till they had complete mastery of certain play materials—blocks for building certain designs, a jigsaw puzzle, a picture book with its story—[…]

   2014, Robert S. Woodworth, Donald G. Marquis, Psychology (Psychology Revivals): A Study of Mental Life

present singular third person foretests · participle present foretesting · participle past foretested · past foretested

1. transitiveTo test beforehand or in advance.

   The instrument used in this study would be helpful to foretest advisees and hence would facilitate advisor's work in the direction of detecting maladjustments.

   1977, Research Journal of the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University

2. raretransitiveTo give evidence for beforehand or in advance.

   This indicates that probably Muslims foretested a greater importance in the diplomatic corps than the modern western states.

   1988, Indian Journal of Politics