What is Pre & Post Testing?

Pre & post testing is a testing model designed to examine the change in overall critical thinking skills or dispositions in a group of test takers. It's reasonable to post test as soon as a few weeks after a focused training program in critical thinking, but most often a post test is gathered months or years after the pretest. One common example for university settings is a pretest at the befinning of a degree program and a post test sometime toward the end of the program. For businesses, the pretest might be done before an employee training program is begun and a post test could be set for weeks or months after the program has been completed.