Reducing Overclaiming in Needs Assessment Studies an Experimental Comparison

Robert J. Calsyn, William L. Kelemen, E. Terrence Jones and Joel P. Winter
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Robert J. Calsyn: University of Missouri–St. Louis
William L. Kelemen: University of Missouri–St. Louis
E. Terrence Jones: University of Missouri–St. Louis
Joel P. Winter: University of Missouri–St. Louis

Evaluation Review, 2001, vol. 25, issue 6, 583-604

Abstract: A randomized experiment investigated the effect of various instructional sets on reducing agency awareness overclaiming, that is, claiming knowledge of fictitious agencies. As predicted, respondents who were warned that the list contained fake agencies exhibited less agency awareness overclaiming than respondents who were not warned. However, providing respondents a memory retrieval strategy had no effect on agency awareness overclaiming. A multivariate model, which included demographic variables, response style variables, and knowledge variables, explained 40% of the variance of agency awareness overclaiming.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X0102500601

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