pretraining
- noun
- /ˈpriːˌtreɪnɪŋ/
- Specialized
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preentrenamiento
- Before starting their advanced training, the students completed a pretraining assessment to gauge their basic skills.
- pretraining questionnaire
- pretraining and posttraining
- pretraining probes
Examples
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For the core competency segment, a 23% improvement in confidence from pretraining to posttraining was seen across all roles, tasks, and core competencies.
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The data presented here were collected by two self-administered questionnaires—one (pretraining) was completed prior to the training sessions and the other (post-training) was completed at their conclusion.
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All subjects were asked to maintain their pretraining general activity levels while participating in the study.
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It is important to keep in mind, however, that there were no pretraining measures of performance on homework assignments.
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The pretraining questionnaire was designed to elicit personal and behavioral data.
Academic text (2009) -
Only two complaints, which were related to overall physical well-being, deconditioning, and general pain or soreness, were associated with the pretraining and training periods.
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On the pretraining questionnaire, the participating clinicians reported seeing an average of 5,963 patients each year.
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The manual gives an introduction and overview of the components, detailed suggestions for use, procedures for conducting a needs assessment, pretraining communication, the required preparations, and detailed suggestions for evaluations by workshop participants.
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The Evidence-Based Practice Attitudes Scale (EBPAS; Aarons, 2004) is a 15-item tool administered at baseline to measure therapists' pretraining attitudes toward EBPs.
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Mean ratings across skills on the social validation questionnaire averaged 2.5 (range = 1.0 to 4.2) on the pretraining probes and 4.8 (range = 4.3 to 5.0) on the posttraining probes.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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Data and process used to teach a computer program to find patterns
Preparing something in advance to make it work better
How Extensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
pretraining = pretrain (transparent) = pre + train + ing
The noun is a straightforward -ing formation from the verb 'pretrain' meaning the process of doing that action.
Etymology
Pretraining combines the prefix pre- meaning 'before' with training from train, which means 'to teach' or 'practice'. So pretraining is the basic teaching or practice done 'before' the main learning to help later learning go more easily.