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to posttest

to posttest

3.9
To test someone after teaching to see what they learned
  • verb
  • /ˈpoʊstˌtɛst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : realizar una postprueba
  • The teacher decided to posttest the students to evaluate the effectiveness of the new curriculum.
  • pretest and posttest
  • pretested and then posttested

Examples

  • All children in the treatment and control conditions were pretested and then posttested.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Students were pretested and posttested to monitor shifts in the subscales surveyed.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Students in both conditions made considerable growth from pretest to posttest.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The working memory scores did not, however, significantly change from pretest to posttest.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Students at School A increased social studies knowledge from pretest to posttest with a mean score of 26% to 56.6%.

    Academic text (2015)
  • All four students made marked improvements in WCPM from pretest to posttest on this assessment.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Delayed posttest scores were compared with pretest and posttest scores of students in the experimental group.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Notably, students with disabilities in the comparison condition did not make progress in content area reading comprehension from pretest to posttest.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The results indicate that both the experimental and control conditions significantly improved their overhand throwing ability from pretest to posttest.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Self-evaluation accuracy did not improve in any subarea from pretest to posttest.

    Academic text (2011)

How Thorough

to assess
296 3.0
to posttest
  • Specialized
3.9
to test
469 1.0
check
720 1.0

Surface Forms

posttest infinitive
posttested past
posttested past participle
posttesting present participle
posttests third person singular

Morphology

posttest = test (transparent) = post + test

A verb formed by adding the productive prefix 'post-' to the verb 'test', meaning 'to test after an intervention'.

Etymology

Posttest combines post- 'after' and test, so to posttest someone is to give a test after an activity or lesson to measure the results.