preexperiment
adjEtymology
From pre- + experiment.
- derived from *per-✻
- derived from experimentum
- derived from esperiment
- inherited from experiment
Definitions
Before an experiment takes place.
A simple form of research that examines a group or groups before and after an event, to…
A simple form of research that examines a group or groups before and after an event, to see whether there is change, but does not employ a control group.
- A study that uses only a manipulation is considered a pre-experiment. As the name implies, a pre-experiment has not quite achieved the level of control necessary to be termed an experiment at all.
- Campbell and Stanley describe three forms of preexperiments: the one-shot case study, the one-group pretest–posttest design, and the static-group comparison.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for preexperiment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA