On November 16, 2005, the ISRP and ISAB produced a revised and updated portion of the Research, Monitoring and Evaluation section of the Retrospective Report (pp 18-30) for publication, titled Study Designs for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation. The ISRP and ISAB's intent was to make the section accessible to a broader audience beyond the Columbia River Basin.

The pre-publication draft uses some different terminology than the previous section in the Retrospective Report. Namely, the term "observational study" is used instead of "mensurative experiment," and "manipulative experiment" is used instead of "randomized treatment experiment" as the two basic classifications of research, monitoring, and evaluation. The basic definitions for these two classifications was not changed.
 

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