Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments: A Practical Guide"Sometimes a book appears on your desk that successfully defines a field. You look at the book and say "thank you." Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments is such a book. . . . This book is clearly grounded in program planning and is not an afterthought or add-on to some other field. . . . I am excited to see this book appear in print. It clearly fills a niche that has been empty for some time: a practical approach to learning about and conducting needs assessments. . . . This is a marvelous book that should make a significant contribution to the field." --From the Foreword by Nick Eastmond, Utah State University "While it has the depth and breadth to be used in a classroom, Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments is written simply and directly enough to be a hands-on guide for needs assessment users and practitioners. The framework proposed by the authors is excellent in that it is readily understood and focuses attention on the most important details/issues in needs assessment practice. The fact that they also present an explanation of so many tools, including examples, makes the book required reading for anyone intending to plan or contract for a needs assessment." --John Theiss, Director of Planning and Evaluation, Texas |
Contents
Foreword | xiii |
A ThreePhase Model of Needs Assessment 3 | xxiii |
Phase 1Preassessment | 20 |
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Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments: A Practical Guide Belle Ruth Witkin,James W. Altschuld No preview available - 1995 |
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action plan agencies Altschuld analyzing assessment causal analysis causes census Chapter clusters concept mapping concerns conducted context criteria critical critical incident technique cross-impact analysis DACUM Delphi survey Delphi technique described determine developed discrepancies discussion evaluation example existing records facilitator failure fault tree analysis Figure fishboning focus group focused force field analysis future wheels goals group processes ideas identified implementation important individuals input interaction interviews issues leader logic gates major meeting ment mental health methods need area needs assessor organization organizational outcomes Pareto principle participants Phase population potential preassessment problems procedures purpose questionnaire questions rates respondents sample scenario school district selected session set priorities social indicators sources specific staff stakeholders Step strategic planning success map target groups task teachers techniques tion trends types Witkin