What is an advantage and a disadvantage of indirect assessment methods?
What will be an ideal response?
Advantages of indirect assessment methods are that they are easy to conduct and do not require a substantial amount of time. Disadvantages of indirect assessment methods are that the informants must rely on their memory of the events, thus information may be incorrect as a result of forgetting or memory biases.
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