Generalizability theory was used to assess the reliability of the Dartmouth Assertive Community Treatment Scale (DACTS), which was developed to assess treatment reliability to assertive community treatment (ACT). Program staff and local evaluators who were participating in a national...

This study demonstrated that estimates of agency awareness in the typical needs assessment study are probably inflated by a response bias labeled “agency awareness overclaiming.†Overclaimers (respondents who reported being aware of fictitious agencies) reported being aware of more...

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...