Download or read book Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide Regional needs assessment approaches written by Jan L. Youtie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide Firm level needs assessment approaches written by Jan L. Youtie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment written by Catherine M. Sleezer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment, Third Edition For fifteen years, A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment has been the go-to text for those who are seeking useful, systematic approaches to needs assessment. Needs assessment is the first step in training, performance improvement, and community development projects. This thoroughly revised and updated edition contains a treasury of resources including a toolkit of ready-to-use templates and job aids that you can customize for your own use. Illustrative case studies and tips show how to assess needs for individuals, teams, organizations, government agencies, and communities. This book combines a how-to text and reference tool for trainers, performance improvement professionals, and students. Managers and community leaders use it to get to the root of their learning and performance problems, make effective decisions, and obtain support for their most pressing issues. Updates to the third edition include: Links to online resources, including a needs assessment book that you can download for free, ethical guidelines, and vendors who assess individual, group and organizational needs. A new chapter on the complex needs assessment approach with new toolkit forms. A summary of the recent advances in our knowledge about learning, training, and performance that you can use to quickly prepare for client meetings. Guidelines on workforce surveys, such as employee engagement surveys. An Instructor’s Guide that contains discussion questions, assessments materials, and new exercises for each chapter. You can use this book to quickly access up-to-date information on the fundamentals of needs assessment including current models, theories, and resources. You can also learn how to manage and report a needs assessment project and access professional ethical guidelines. Learn five approaches to needs assessment: knowledge and skills analysis, job and task analysis, competency-based needs assessment, strategic needs assessment, and complex needs assessment.
Download or read book Needs Assessment written by David Royse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service agencies must ensure that their services are truly needed. Needs assessments provide a baseline against which later results can be compared, and may also assist policy-makers in recognizing new trends or problems on the horizon. With so much hinging on their outcome, these assessments must be conducted both accurately and efficiently, and this pocket guide will give practitioners the ability to do so. Written by a group of social work scholars with a collective wealth of experience in conducting needs assessments at all levels, this practical guide will walk readers step by step through the process of selecting the right design to confidently conducting the assessment, meticulously analyzing data, and finally writing a cogent report. In addition, the authors explore the various approaches that can be used to assess the needs of a client or population group and the differences between large- and small-scale assessments. Later chapters in the book include discussions of emerging technologies in the field as well as abundant social work case examples. Social work graduate students, as well as social workers in the field who need to brush up on their skills, will find this book an invaluable aid.
Download or read book Conducting Needs Assessments written by Fernando I. Soriano and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling book Conducting Needs Assessment offers a brief, how-to guide that demystifies the process of planning a community intervention by helping both students and practitioners understand how to plan and conduct a needs assessment. Coverage includes planning the needs assessment, including the variety of methods used, survey methods and sample sizes, data collection and analysis, and reporting the findings. To aid students' understanding, Soriano engages the students in the process of planning a community intervention by using clear, real-world examples and basic terms that have been updated to reflect current issues and HIPPA regulations.
Download or read book From Needs Assessment to Action written by James W. Altschuld and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides tools for analyzing and collating needs assessment data in order to use it to make decisions and plan activities.
Download or read book A Report to Congress written by National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Needs Assessment Phase I written by James W. Altschuld and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Guide to Assessing Needs written by Ryan Watkins and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest decisions that lead to development projects are among the most critical in determining long-term success. This phase of project development transforms exciting ideas into project proposals, setting the stage for a variety of actions that will eventually lead (if all goes well) to desirable results. From deciding to propose a sanitation project in South Asia to selecting approaches that strengthen school management in South America, these decisions are the starting place of development. This book is your guide to having assessing needs and then making essential decisions about what to do next. Needs assessments support this early phase of project development with proven approaches for gathering information and making justifiable decisions. Filled with practical strategies, tools, and guides, you will find that this book covers both large-scale formal needs assessments, as well as less-formal assessments that guide daily decisions. Included in the book is a blend of rigorous methods and realistic tools that can help you make informed and reasoned decisions. Use the tools featured in the book to conduct focus groups, develop surveys, prioritize needs, and lead group decision-making; developing a comprehensive, yet realistic, approach to identifying needs and selecting among alternative ways forward.
Download or read book Case Studies in Needs Assessment written by Darlene F. Russ-Eft and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Studies in Needs Assessment offers insights about the practice of needs assessment in dynamic, real-world organizations and communities. This book invites both novice and seasoned analysts to look over the shoulders of practitioners, to examine needs assessment practice in action, to grasp the real-world issues that arise, and to understand a variety of needs assessment strategies and challenges. Each case in this book examines the implementation of needs assessment in a specific situation, bridging needs assessment theories and actual practice. The book is organized around five major approaches: knowledge and skill assessment, job and task analysis, competency assessment, strategic needs assessment, and complex needs assessment. The last chapter summarizes lessons learned from all the case studies: it describes the insights and tricks of the trade that Darlene Russ-Eft and Catherine Sleezer gained from commissioning and reviewing these cases.
Download or read book Conducting Needs Assessments written by Fernando Soriano and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clearly written yet technically sophisticated, this practical volume introduces the reader to the broad range of information and procedures which are essential for undertaking effective needs assessments. The book is unique in addressing technical subjects - including sample size requirements and statistical analyses - in an accessible style, and in its coverage of working with culturally diverse populations. Each chapter contains a wealth of examples and problem-solving exercises drawn from a variety of public and private human and health services agencies.
Download or read book Needs Assessment written by Roger A. Kaufman and published by Educational Technology. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone involved in planning, management, administration, organizational change, assessment, evaluation and renewal. It is for: people who must decide where to go and justify why; those who conduct needs assessments; administrators, managers, executives. It provides professionals with advice on the type of needs assessent they should use, why and how. The book provides an explanation of different types of needs assessments, when each is most appropriate to use, and how to successfully construct each type of needs assessment.
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Download or read book A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment written by Kavita Gupta and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) This how-to handbook is perfect for anyone seeking a methodical approach to needs assessment. You'll get a treasury of tools: worksheets, ready-to-use forms, and templates for planning a course of action. The accompanying disk, packed with job aids, enables you to customize materials for your own use. You'll learn how to: Overcome barriers to success Prepare interviews and surveys Accelerate the data-gathering process Identify competencies for effective performance Develop a long-term performance improvement plan Whether you're an experienced trainer who's been conducting needs assessments for years, or a supervisor who wants to get to the root of job performance problems, this book has the tools for you! No other resource tackles such a wide range of needs assessments. A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment has it all!
Download or read book Rural Communities in the Path of Development written by Julie Marx and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Needs Assessment written by James W. Altschuld and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments written by Belle Ruth Witkin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-09-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
