Article
Reducing Overclaiming in Needs Assessments: An Experimental Comparison
Evaluation Review
(2001)
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.
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2001
Citation Information
E. Terrence Jones, Robert J. Calsyn, William J. Kelemen and Jeol P. Winter. "Reducing Overclaiming in Needs Assessments: An Experimental Comparison" Evaluation Review (2001) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eterrence-jones/33/