Foretest

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

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.

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—[…]

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.

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