What is the purpose of a survey pretest?

Grassroots lobbying is designed to influence policy by

a. persuading legislators of the critical importance of farm issues. b. reminding legislators of the values and beliefs they held when they first entered politics c. convincing large numbers of citizens to contact political leaders by letters, telegrams, e-mail, faxes, and phone calls. d. persuading legislators that a correct vote on an upcoming bill will produce campaign contributions. e. money contributed to campaigns by members.

Some evidence of the performance of students and American schools can be seen in the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and American College Test (ACT) scores, where a. mathematics scores dropped in almost every year between 1963 and 1982, and verbal scores have remainednearly constant

b. verbal scores dropped in almost every year between 1973 and 1992, and mathematics scores have remainedconstant. c. science and mathematics total scores dropped in every year between 1983 and 2003. d. verbal and math scores dropped almost annually from 1963 to 1982; scores were erratic in the 1980s, but thetrend has generally been flat since 2000, with a slight downward trend in the late 2000s.