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Peer reviewedCalsyn, Robert J.; Kelemen, William L.; Jones, E. Terrence; Winter, Joel P. – Evaluation Review, 2001
Studied the effect of various instructional sets on reducing the claiming of knowledge of fictitious agencies in a survey of awareness of public agencies completed by 1,068 registered voters. Warning respondents that the list contained fake agencies reduced overclaiming but providing a memory retrieval strategy had no effect on overclaiming. (SLD)
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Needs Assessment, Public Agencies, Research Methodology
Direct linkFarrell, S. J.; Reissing, E. D. – Evaluation Review, 2004
This study represents the first enumeration of the street homeless population in Canada. Past enumeration attempts have been challenged on their significant methodological shortcomings. This enumeration directly addressed the lessons learned from previous attempts, and improvements to the methodology are presented and discussed. In addition,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homeless People, Needs Assessment, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedWiener, Richard L.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1994
Naturalistic and traditional social science models were used to conduct a needs assessment in which 35 stakeholders were interviewed about their perceptions of the functioning of a crisis agency and the needs of the community and the agency. Concept mapping (multidimensional scaling and hierarchical analysis) was used to establish need categories…
Descriptors: Agencies, Concept Mapping, Crisis Intervention, Interviews
