Back to the Future: Considerations in Use and Reporting of the Retrospective Pretest

Autor/in	Hill, Laura G.
Titel	Back to the Future: Considerations in Use and Reporting of the Retrospective Pretest
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44 (2020) 2, S.184-191 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hill, Laura G.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025419870245
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Pretesting; Response Style (Tests); Bias; Testing Problems; Scores; Alternative Assessment; Test Format; Intervention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vortest; Antwortverhalten; Testentwicklung
Abstract	Retrospective pretests ask respondents to report after an intervention on their aptitudes, knowledge, or beliefs before the intervention. A primary reason to administer a retrospective pretest is that in some situations, program participants may over the course of an intervention revise or recalibrate their prior understanding of program content, with the result that their posttest scores are lower than their traditional pretest scores, even though their understanding or abilities have increased. This phenomenon is called response-shift bias. The existence of response-shift bias is undisputed, but it does not always occur, and use of the retrospective pretest in place of a traditional pretest often introduces new problems. In this commentary, I provide a brief overview of the literature on response-shift bias and discuss common pitfalls in the use and reporting of retrospective pretest results, including a failure to consider multiple factors that may affect all test scores, as well as claims that retrospective pretests are less biased than traditional pretests, provide more accurate estimates of effects, and are necessarily superior to traditional pretests in program evaluation. I comment on the article by Little et al. (2019) in this issue in light of the literature on retrospective pretests and discuss the need for a theoretical framework to guide research on response-shift bias. The goal of the commentary is to provide readers with an informed and critical lens through which to evaluate and use retrospective pretest methods. [For Little et al.'s "The Retrospective Pretest-Posttest Design Redux: On Its Validity as an Alternative to Traditional Pretest-Posttest Measurement," see EJ1242580.] (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01