http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/pros-and-cons-of-the-retrospective-pre-test-design/2010/07/15/ Michael Hanley's blog about e-learning, web-based elearning, technology in education, e-learning tools, learning 2.0 (blogs and podcasts), & continuous professional development. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:09:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/pros-and-cons-of-the-retrospective-pre-test-design/2010/07/15/comment-page-1/#comment-2169 M. Engle Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:20:35 +0000 http://michaelhanley.ie/elearningcurve/pros-and-cons-of-the-retrospective-pre-test-design/2010/07/15/#comment-2169 In the table for "Pros and Cons of the Retrospective Pretest Design", possible distortions in retrospective reports may occur because of response shift bias. This is cited as a disadvantage. Yet in the previous blog,you say, "RPT enables researchers to reduce the response shift bias because the participants are able to give pretest responses which are based on a post intervention frame of reference." That sounds like an advantage, NOT a disadvantage as listed in the table. Please clarify. In the table for “Pros and Cons of the Retrospective Pretest Design”, possible distortions in retrospective reports may occur because of response shift bias. This is cited as a disadvantage. Yet in the previous blog,you say, “RPT enables researchers to reduce the response shift bias because the participants are able to give pretest responses which are based on a post intervention frame of reference.” That sounds like an advantage, NOT a disadvantage as listed in the table. Please clarify.

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