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Needs Assessment

An Overview

By: James W. Altschuld,David Devraj Kumar

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Needs Assessment

An Overview

By: James W. Altschuld,David Devraj Kumar

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.

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From Needs Assessment to Action

Transforming Needs Into Solution Strategies

By: James W. Altschuld,Belle Ruth Witkin

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From Needs Assessment to Action

Transforming Needs Into Solution Strategies

By: James W. Altschuld,Belle Ruth Witkin

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.

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076190932X

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Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments

A Practical Guide

By: Belle Ruth Witkin,James W. Altschuld

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Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments

A Practical Guide

By: Belle Ruth Witkin,James W. Altschuld

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.

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0803958102

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Needs Assessment Phase II

Collecting Data

By: James W. Altschuld

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Needs Assessment Phase II

Collecting Data

By: James W. Altschuld

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

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Needs Assessment Phase I

Getting Started (Book 2)

By: James W. Altschuld,J. N. Eastmond, Jr.

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Needs Assessment Phase I

Getting Started (Book 2)

By: James W. Altschuld,J. N. Eastmond, Jr.

The Authors have done a good job of conveying the nuts and bolts of the process and problem situations that can arise from political and social conditions." —Stephanie Brzuzy, Xavier University "The authors offer a nice overview of the process involved in developing and conducting needs assessments. They make a cogent argument for the importance of identifying and addressing potential barriers to conducting a worthwhile needs assessment." —Melanie Otis, University of Kentucky Although this book can be used in a stand-alone fashion, it is part of the Needs Assessment KIT—five interrelated and sequenced books that take the reader through the needs assessment process (ISBN: 978-0-7619-2595-8).

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1544340397

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Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment

Concepts and Practical Applications

By: James W. Altschuld

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Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment

Concepts and Practical Applications

By: James W. Altschuld

In the groundbreaking text, Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment, James W. Altschuld examines the synthesis of two antithetical ideas—needs assessment and asset/capacity building. At the heart of this approach is a focus on assessing the strengths and assets that communities have and demonstrating how to make those assets stronger. The author explains the foundation of needs assessment and asset/capacity building, discusses their similarities and differences, and offers a new hybrid framework that includes eight steps for how they can be done jointly for better results. The author then applies a checklist for judging the quality of this approach to six cases that represent real-world applications of hybrid principles. The last chapter demonstrates how such efforts might be studied in the future, emphasizing ways findings and results from hybrid ventures can be used effectively. A wide range of examples, tables, and figures appear throughout, with insightful discussion questions at the end of each chapter to facilitate meaningful discourse.

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Needs Assessment

An Overview

By: James W. Altschuld,David Devraj Kumar

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An Overview

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Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments

A Practical Guide

By: Belle Ruth Witkin,James W. Altschuld

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A Practical Guide

By: Belle Ruth Witkin,James W. Altschuld

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Needs Assessment Phase I

Getting Started

By: James W. Altschuld,J. N. Eastmond, Jr.

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Needs Assessment Phase I

Getting Started

By: James W. Altschuld,J. N. Eastmond, Jr.

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.

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Needs Assessment

Analysis and Prioritization

By: James W. Altschuld,Jeffry L. White

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Needs Assessment

Analysis and Prioritization

By: James W. Altschuld,Jeffry L. White

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.

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Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment

Concepts and Practical Applications

By: James W. Altschuld

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Needs Assessment Phase II

Collecting Data

By: James W. Altschuld

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Collecting Data

By: James W. Altschuld

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

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