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NA Week: Ryan Watkins on Overcoming Five Obstacles to a Successful Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 12, 2012 April 6, 2012

I’m Ryan Watkins and I am an associate professor at George Washington University. Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment website www.gapsinresults.com – which collects many needs assessment resources for you. I’m writing today about five needs assessment obstacles and tips to overcome them. Lessons Learned: 1st Obstacle: “We need …” Unfortunately, needs assessment …

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NA Week: Sue Hamann on Including Intended Service Recipients in Needs Assessment and Program Planning

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 11, 2012 March 24, 2012

Hello, my name is Sue Hamann, and I work at the National Institutes of Health. Today I will share some tips about including intended service recipients in needs assessment and program planning. Lessons Learned: Although leading authorities recommend the inclusion of intended service recipients, that is, those persons who have a need to be met …

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NA Week: Maurya West Meiers on Planning and Managing Your Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 10, 2012 March 24, 2012

My name is Maurya West Meiers and I work at the World Bank as an Evaluation Officer. I’m writing to share information from our book on planning for and managing your needs assessment. Lessons Learned – Use checklists: Don’t underestimate the power and usefulness of checklists. Airline pilots are required to use them. Many surgeons …

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NA Week: James Altschuld on Lessons Learned: Use the 3 Phase Model

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / April 9, 2012 April 6, 2012

I’m James Altschuld, Professor Emeritus of Ohio State University. So you have to conduct a needs assessment! You are an evaluator in an organization or expert consultant, you know what to do. You have a sense of what needs assessment is but you really haven’t been involved in one before and now you are concerned. …

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NA Week: Ryan Watkins on Five Must Read Articles on Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 8, 2012 April 9, 2012

I’m Ryan Watkins, an Associate Professor at George Washington University. Lessons Learned: Get familiar with needs assessment literature Even if you only occasionally conduct needs assessments, it is important to be aware of the research literature that supports your theories, processes, and tools. I’ve summarized five “classic” articles on needs assessment that should be on …

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Loraine Park, Carolyn Verheyen, and Eric Wat on Tips on Asset Mapping

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Needs Assessment / January 3, 2012 December 16, 2011

We are a collaborative team from three research and planning firms: Loraine Park (Harder+Company Community Research), Carolyn Verheyen (MIG), and Eric Wat (SSG). As part of a larger community needs assessment, we recently conducted asset mapping in multiple communities. Our aim was to use that process to engage residents and parents in conversations about the …

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Melissa Biel on the Uniform Data System (UDS) Mapper

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology, Data Visualization and Reporting, Health Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Needs Assessment / December 20, 2011 December 21, 2011

My name is Melissa Biel and I am an independent consultant. I frequently work with hospitals, clinics and community organizations to conduct community health needs assessments. A common component of a community needs assessment is identifying access to primary health care. I have found the Uniform Data System (UDS) and the associated UDS Mapper to …

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Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren on Using Think-aloud Interviewing to Evaluate Web Applications

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Needs Assessment, Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / April 13, 2011 February 26, 2011

Hello! We are Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren. We work at the Information Experience Laboratory (IE Lab) of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. The IE lab is a usability laboratory that conducts research and evaluates technology. What is usability? According to Jakob Nielsen’s definition, usability …

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Jim Altschuld on So They Think They Need a Needs Assessment!

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 17, 2010 May 14, 2010

Hi, my name is Jim Altschuld. I am a faculty emeritus at the Ohio State University in the school of educational policy and leadership. Today I will be sharing some tips on needs assessment. You’re called in and they want to assess their needs. That’s great because you’ve been steeped in Witkin, Altschuld, Kaufman, Gupta, …

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