Preobservation

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An observation or assessment made before an experimental intervention or procedure.

    "These designs offer significant improvement over the pretest-posttest design because with a series of preobservations and postobservations, patterns of stability and change can be assessed more accurately."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Before observation. not-comparable

Example

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"These designs offer significant improvement over the pretest-posttest design because with a series of preobservations and postobservations, patterns of stability and change can be assessed more accurately."

Etymology

From pre- + observation.

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