A prefinal for an intro class in Arabic or Chinese might be a wash, just because the notations and symbols and alphabet are entirely alien. My guess is that prefinals are likely to be much more useful in humanities courses and the social sciences, because in those courses our minds have some scaffolding of language to work with, before making a guess. “At this point, we don’t know what the ideal applications of pretesting are,” Robert Bjork told me. “It’s still a very new area.”
