pilot testing

collocation in English

meanings of pilotand testing

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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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Examples of pilot testing

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Subjects' age was determined by previous research and pilottesting.
In other cases, items can be automatically scored, but the prerequisite pilottesting of items needed to estimate item parameters is not feasible.
Items were not numbered, as it was found in pilottesting that some children confused real numbers with pseudo-letters.
Items measuring reassurance of worth were excluded from the scale because they were not well understood during pilottesting.
Key cost-generating events can be identified in advance through review of published studies and pretrial and pilottesting (11).
Half of each was predicted to be familiar and half unfamiliar, based on the results of pilottesting.
Pilottesting had led to revisions to the protocol and interview questions.
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 during pilottesting.
Order was introduced as a variable because pilottesting suggested children were more likely to produce compounds when the representational items were presented first.
For this study, we collected the teachers' and learners' impressions about the course over a 12-month period during the pilottesting and revision phases.
This 4-s interval had been determined from pilottesting with a comparable population.
This intervention has undergone pilottesting with cancer patients and is viewed as a promising intervention f or people at the end of life.
These were objects for which toddlers in the pilottesting did not consistently associate a name.
After the pilottesting, the answers given by each child were discussed by two well-trained research assistants in order to compile a more complete scoring key.
Pilottesting showed that 8-year-olds were able to do this task with lists of this length.
During pilottesting children in the first to sixth grades, from two additional schools, were tested to investigate floor and ceiling effects.
First, the words were highly familiar and easily categorizable (as indicated by pilottesting).
Thus, for instance, they did not use an onset-rime blending task, because their pilottesting indicated that this was at ceiling for participants.
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