Addressing Response-shift Bias: Retrospective Pretests in Recreation Research and Evaluation

By Jim Sibthorp, K. Paisley, John Gookin, Peter Ward. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. Alan Ewert
2. Jim Sibthorp
3. Silvia Collado
4. J. A. Corraliza

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1. Jim Sibthorp
2. Mat D. Duerden
3. Alan Ewert

Citations in the corpus

• Creating Outcomes through Experiential Education: The Challenge of Confounding Variables (2009, background): “For example, anonymity of responses is one of the more effective ways to address social desirability response bias, and a retrospective pretest or eliminating self-perception measures can be used to address response shift bias in certain situations (Sibthorp et al., 2007).”
• The impact of direct and indirect experiences on the development of environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior (2010, background): “The retrospective wording for this study was “at the beginning of the school year, how would you have responded to this statement [referring to the statement associated with that particular item]?” Use of this approach guarded against response-shift bias which occurs between pre and posttests when i”