pilot testing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpilotandtesting
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pilot
noun[C]
uk/ˈpaɪ.lət/us/ˈpaɪ.lət/
a person who flies ...
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testing
adjective
uk/ˈtes.tɪŋ/us/ˈtes.tɪŋ/
difficult:
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(Definition ofpilotandtestingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpilot testing
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Subjects' age was determined by previous research andpilottesting.
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In other cases, items can be automatically scored, but the prerequisitepilottestingof items needed to estimate item parameters is not feasible.
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Items were not numbered, as it was found inpilottestingthat some children confused real numbers with pseudo-letters.
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Items measuring reassurance of worth were excluded from the scale because they were not well understood duringpilottesting.
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Key cost-generating events can be identified in advance through review of published studies and pretrial andpilottesting(11).
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Half of each was predicted to be familiar and half unfamiliar, based on the results ofpilottesting.
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Pilottestinghad led to revisions to the protocol and interview questions.
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The first instruction was given to prevent the children from putting a finger on or near the first item heard, a strategy several children tried to invoke duringpilottesting.
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Order was introduced as a variable becausepilottestingsuggested children were more likely to produce compounds when the representational items were presented first.
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For this study, we collected the teachers' and learners' impressions about the course over a 12-month period during thepilottestingand revision phases.
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This 4-s interval had been determined frompilottestingwith a comparable population.
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This intervention has undergonepilottestingwith cancer patients and is viewed as a promising intervention f or people at the end of life.
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These were objects for which toddlers in thepilottestingdid not consistently associate a name.
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After thepilottesting, the answers given by each child were discussed by two well-trained research assistants in order to compile a more complete scoring key.
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Pilottestingshowed that 8-year-olds were able to do this task with lists of this length.
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Duringpilottestingchildren in the first to sixth grades, from two additional schools, were tested to investigate floor and ceiling effects.
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First, the words were highly familiar and easily categorizable (as indicated bypilottesting).
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Thus, for instance, they did not use an onset-rime blending task, because theirpilottestingindicated that this was at ceiling for participants.
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