A common belief amongst students and teachers is that testing serves primarily as an evaluative tool, as a "dipstick" to assess what one knows and does not know (Hartwig & Dunlosky, 2012; McAndrew, Morrow, Atiyeh, & Pierre, 2016; Morehead, Rhodes, & DeLozier, 2016).
"There's a fantasy about educational testing — that we can come up with a dipstick and know exactly what the oil level is," he said by telephone from Washington.
A "rapid" test is performed using a dipstick.
Morwenna, his receptionist, is nice enough but she muddles up the urine dipsticks – she's a bit of a dipstick herself, to be honest.
Diesel, of course, slots into the "Fast and Furious" films as neatly as a dipstick.
A cut so deep I used my finger as a dipstick to measure it.
The testing device, which resembles a dipstick, is then inserted into the vial.
A "dipstick" test of the urine will look for abnormalities, such as protein in the urine – an early warning sign of trauma or body malfunction.
There is no definitive biomarker for pregnancy so you can't just take a urine sample, put a dipstick on it and go "hey presto", she's pregnant.
He offered the right amount of help while keeping his distance so that I didn't feel like a dipstick while I tried them on.
