Reducing Overclaiming in Needs Assessment Studies an Experimental Comparison

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 th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Evaluation review 2001-12, Vol.25 (6), p.583-604
Hauptverfasser: Calsyn, Robert J., Kelemen, William L., Jones, E. Terrence, Winter, Joel P.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0193-841X
1552-3926
DOI:10.1177/0193841X0102500601