Measuring Program Outcomes: Using Retrospective Pretest Methodology.

摘要: This study used longitudinal data from 307 mothers with firstborn infants participating in a home-visitation, child-abuse prevention program. A self-report measure of specific constructs the program hoped to affect showed that retrospective pretest methodology produced more legitimate assessment outcomes than did traditional pretest-posttest methodology. Results when response shift bias was present, comparisons resulted an underestimation effects could easily be avoided by With demands for documenting increasing, designs are shown simple, convenient, and expeditious method assessing responsive interventions. The limits pretests, methods strengthening their use, discussed.