RPT: A One-Stop-Shop for Pre/Post Data

How do you measure whether your programs worked? Do you feel like your only option is to survey participants at the beginning and end of a program year? If you didn’t survey participants early on, do you feel like you’ve now lost the opportunity for those outcome data? Fear not! The RPT might be just what you didn’t know you needed…

At Sharp Insight, we’re fans of the retrospective post-then-pre-test (RPT). “The what?”, you may ask…  The RPT is a survey method that has pre-test style items built right into the post-test for a “one-stop-shop” for your program survey experience.

We put together this resource as an introduction to the RPT, including a straightforward definition, 4 reasons why you might want to use them, and even a sample thrown in. This way you have what you need to determine if an RPT is the right method for your program survey.