to posttest
- verb
- /ˈpoʊstˌtɛst/
- Specialized
- The teacher decided to posttest the students to evaluate the effectiveness of the new curriculum.
- pretest and posttest
- pretested and then posttested
Examples
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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)
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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.