Pretesting helps ensure that materials are well understood, responsive to audience needs and concerns, and culturally sensitive. Although funds may not be available for extensive pretesting, some pretesting is essential to ensure that materials are culturally relevant and understandable to the target audience. The focus of this section, however, is the special requirements for pretesting low-literacy materials. Personal Involvement or Relevance. The Doaks also stress that not every word, picture, or idea has to be tested.
Comprehension often depends on understanding fundamental vocabulary terms and visuals.
Organizing a Pretest Pretesting with low-literate audiences involves some unique logistical considerations. This section discusses some issues to keep in mind while organizing your pretest. Preliminary typeset, laid-out version of the product with rough graphics in place. Adult Basic Education and English as a Second Language classes. Some researchers believe it is best to test a product in the same type of environment in which a reader will be using the material.