🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

pós-teste

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pos-teste

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Posttest/ˈpoʊst.tɛst/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #28500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O pós-teste avaliou o conhecimento adquirido pelos alunos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A test administered to students or research subjects after an instructional period or experimental treatment to determine what has been learned or how much change has occurred.

    "The researchers compared the scores from the pretest and the posttest to measure the effectiveness of the training program."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or occurring in a test administered after a treatment or educational session.

    "Participants were asked to complete the posttest evaluation before leaving the laboratory."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix 'post-' (from Latin 'post', meaning 'after' or 'behind') combined with the noun 'test' (from Old French 'tast', meaning 'pot testing' or 'trial'). It emerged in the mid-20th century alongside modern educational psychology and empirical research methodologies to denote evaluations conducted following an instructional or experimental intervention.

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