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Needs Assessment

Bethany Laursen on How to Evaluate the Situation, Not Just the Program: It’s Complex!

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / June 29, 2014

I’m Bethany Laursen, Evaluation Outreach Specialist with the Solid & Hazardous Waste Education Center (SHWEC) at the University of Wisconsin. I’m also principal consultant at Laursen Evaluation and Design, LLC. At SHWEC, I help staff design programs that engage opportunities to achieve our mission. Opportunity hunting requires a form of situation assessment, which has not …

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NA TIG Week: Lisle Hites on Conducting a Needs Assessment on HIV/AIDS Issues in the South

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, Needs Assessment / May 24, 2014

I’m Lisle Hites, Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). I’m writing to share my team’s experiences in conducting needs assessments. We frequently have opportunities to work with our colleagues on campus to conduct needs assessments for grant-funded projects. One such example was a training grant …

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NA TIG Week: James Altschuld on Hybrid Vigor – It’s not just Needs Assessment or Asset/Capacity Building

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 24, 2014

I’m James Altschuld, Professor Emeritus of Ohio State University. I’ve written a lot over the years about needs assessment.  Today’s posting is about having hybrid vigor in how we approach our work.  It’s not just needs assessment or asset/capacity building, it’s both! My premise is that there are two contrasting stances.  One is building from …

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NA TIG Week: Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung on Needs Assessment and Decision-making

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 24, 2014

My name is Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota and Program Co-chair for the Needs Assessment (NA) TIG. The main concern I want to share in this blog is that we need to pay more attention to the influence of decision-making …

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NA TIG Week: Sue Hamann on Tips for Novice Needs Assessors

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 24, 2014

Hello, my name is Sue Hamann. I work at the National Institutes of Health as a Science Evaluation Officer, and I teach program evaluation to graduate students. Today I’m providing tips to novices in needs assessment (NA). Hot Tips: Use the original definition of needs. The original definition of NA is the measurement of the …

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NA TIG Week: Ryan Watkins on Planning to Measure Needs

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2014

I’m Ryan Watkins, Associate Professor at George Washington University and manager of two websites, www.WeShareScience.com and www.NeedsAssessment.org. Needs assessments require planning. You must plan for the “who, what, why, where, when, and how” of each step – from soliciting participation of stakeholder groups to the iterative development of grounded recommendations.   An overlooked planning task involves …

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NA TIG Week: Maurya West Meiers on Introducing Needs Assessment TIG Week and Identifying and Staying in Touch with Your Needs Assessment Stakeholders and Informants

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 24, 2014

My name is Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer and am coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (available free here). This week’s blog postings are from members of the Needs Assessment TIG. Check out our …

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Monika Mitra and Lauren Smith on Conducting a Health Needs Assessment of People with Disabilities

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, Needs Assessment / February 16, 2014

Hi, we are Monika Mitra and Lauren Smith from the Disability, Health, and Employment Policy unit in the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Our research is focused on health disparities between people with and without disabilities. Evaluating a Population of People with Disabilities In collaboration with the …

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Kylie Hutchinson on a Framework for Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 1, 2012

My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning and Evaluation. I have taught workshops on various evaluation topics for both the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Evaluators are often given the task of conducting needs assessments. Have you ever wondered how you can …

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NA Week: Roger Kaufman on Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / March 24, 2012

For the past five decades Roger Kaufman (RK) has been a leader in the field of needs assessment – contributing 40 books and 200+ articles, and consulting with organizations around the world. He is a professor emeritus from Florida State University and a Distinguished Research Professor, Sonora (Mexico) Institute of Technology. For aea365, Dr. Kaufman …

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