Annie,
Pretests don't have to be elaborate, in fact, they can rather short. I have taken 2-3 key objectives, stuff the students must know by the time they finish the course and derived questions from that into 3-4 question for each objective. This simple exercise will show how much students already know and how much emphasis I'll need to spend on areas I may not hac=ve suspected attention would have been needed.
Barry Westling
