Needs Assessment
Needs Assessment

Author: James W. Altschuld

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1412975840

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In 1995, Witkin and Altschuld proposed a three phase process model of needs assessment: - Preassessment (learning as much as possible from existing, inexpensive sources) - Assessment (collecting new information about the needs in consideration) - Postassessment (prioritizing needs, understanding their causes, and translating priorities into action plans for organizations). The model has been extensively re-conceptualized and forms the basis for this book. The content includes a user-oriented approach to a comprehensive overview of the three phases and the 14 key steps necessary to implement them. Numerous examples and practical illustrations are given throughout the text as guidance for needs assessors and those who do research on the topic. An extensive glossary of needs-related terms and an outline of a final report are also provided. The book is the first one in the Needs Assessment KIT with connections to the other four.

Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments
Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments

Author: Belle Ruth Witkin

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995-09-07

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780803958104

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This practical guide to conducting needs assessments provides: coverage of several approaches for analysig data; a balanced description of qualitative and quantitative methodologies; multiple case studies and examples.

A Guide to Assessing Needs
A Guide to Assessing Needs

Author: Ryan Watkins

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2012-01-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0821389017

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Making informed decisions is the essential beginning to any successful development project. Before the project even begins, you can use needs assessment approaches to guide your decisions. This book is filled with practical strategies that can help you define the desired results and select the most appropriate activities for achieving them.

Training Needs Assessment
Training Needs Assessment

Author: Jean Barbazette

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2006-01-20

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0787975257

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This book covers the essentials of needs analysis from the emerging trainer's perspective by providing just the right amount of support and knowledge without going too deep into the subject. The topics covered include when and how to do a training needs analysis; using informal and formal analysis techniques; goal, task and population analysis; and how to develop and present a training plan for management approval. Each chapter includes appropriate data gathering tools. The Skilled Trainer series provides practical guidance for those who've had some exposure to training and would like to take their career to the next level.

Needs Assessment Phase II
Needs Assessment Phase II

Author: James W. Altschuld

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1412975131

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This book provides numerous approaches for starting a meaningful needs assessment and provides readers with steps and case studies.

Needs Assessment Phase I
Needs Assessment Phase I

Author: James W. Altschuld

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1412978726

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Frequently, starting a meaningful needs assessment is problematic. This book focuses on numerous approaches for doing just that. Its content includes such things as the cultural audit, initial scaled or open-ended questionnaires for use by the group guiding the assessment, how to select members of that group and how to organize its endeavors, techniques for conducting collaborative ventures across organizations, sources of available information that might be used early in the process, and so forth. The emphasis is on collecting existing information before going to the expensive process of creating new data. Decisions coming from Phase 1 are described.

Needs Assessment
Needs Assessment

Author: James W. Altschuld

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1412975573

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This volume four of The Needs Assessment Kit provides a good overview of how to: analyze two distinct types of data; pull them together in a meaningful way; and to derive priorities from the collation of the information that has been generated by the needs assessment. What should result is a stronger foundation for needs-related decisions and one that will stand the scrutiny of involved and questioning audiences. áThis text offers guidance not absolute solutions to help needs assessment committees (NACs) and their facilitators work through the complexities of analysis and subsequent prioritization.

From Needs Assessment to Action
From Needs Assessment to Action

Author: James W. Altschuld

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780761909323

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Through the use of real world examples drawn from various fields, the book provides in-depth procedures for: analyzing and combining different types of data collected in the needs assessment process, prioritizing needs, selecting solution strategies, designing and implementing solution strategies, and examining major multiple-method needs assessment studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Needs Assessment Phase III
Needs Assessment Phase III

Author: Laurie Stevahn

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1412975832

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Ultimately, the value of any needs assessment lies in whether it leads to action plans for improving and enhancing the organization or group for which it was conducted. In practice this may be more difficult that it would seem. This book takes the reader through a journey of getting results utilized and then evaluating the needs assessment itself. Pitfalls to avoid along the way are thoughtfully illuminated. A major highlight of the text is the "double dozen" techniques that can be used to make the trip a special experience. The text explains where the techniques best fit into making utilization a reality.