title: Reducing overclaiming in needs assessment studies. An experimental comparison.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Calsyn
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Kelemen
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Winter
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D015982:Bias; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D020380:Needs Assessment; D044465:White People