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Activities and Resources
AEA Conference and Needs Assessment Sessions. Get in touch with our leadership to share your interest in:
NeedsAssessment.org is run by one of our members and provides a comprehensive set of NA resources including links to books, articles, an NA experts version of Chat, among other things.
AEA365 Needs Assessment posts. Check out our posts over the years. If you are not receiving AEA365 posts, sign up here.
NeedsAssessment Listserv. You can post questions, share articles, and find experts by posting to this mailing list.
LinkedIn Needs Assessment Group. Request to join.
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About Needs Assessment
Needs assessment can be described as...
- A process for identifying the knowledge and skills necessary for achieving organizational goals (Brinkerhof & Gill, 1994)
- A process for pinpointing reasons for gaps in performance or a method for identifying new and future performance (Gupta, Sleezer, & Russ-Eft, 2006)
- A method of finding out the nature and extent of performance problems and how they can be solved (Molenda, Pershing, & Reigeluth, 1996)
- The process for pinpointing reasons for gaps in performance or a method for identifying new and future performance needs (Gupta, 1999), or...
- A systematic approach with defined series of phases that gathers data by means of established procedures and methods for a specific purpose (Witken & Altschuld, 1995).
Needs assessments (NA) are based on a rich body of literature, often comparing and contrasting needs assessment to other evaluation approaches and methods. The NA TIG is an active group of professionals that both study and apply needs assessment theories and models in a variety of settings -- from health care to economics. For additional information on NA, visit NeedsAssessment.org, a comprehensive resource site on the topic.
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