It's subtle, but can you see the difference between these two evaluation questions? "What are the top needs of our stakeholders?" and "What are the best opportunities for our program?" The first calls for a traditional needs assessment. The second is what I call a "Needs Assessment Plus," which...
SWOT AEA presentation.pptx
Presentation shared at AEA 2015 Conference, Session 2796, Quick but Not dirty: How to Plan and Implement a Quality Needs Assessment in Six Weeks #NeedsAssessment #2015 Conference #2015Conference
AEA_2015_Chicago_NA_6WeekPlan_11Nov2015.pptx
A basic introduction to the "what, why, and how" of evaluation rubrics - from Jane Davidson. Presented at AEA 2013 as part of a session with Michael Scriven (as discussant) and Thomaz Chianca and Monica Pinto presenting a case study to illustrate. See also http://RealEvaluation.com (Jane...
2013-10 AEA Intro to Rubrics - what why how.pdf
Evaluation-specific methodology: Why it MUST be in your toolkit. Slides from a 45-minute demonstration session from Jane Davidson and Michael Scriven at AEA 2013 in Washington DC. For more information, please see http://RealEvaluation.com and http://MichaelScriven.info #Rubrics ...
2013-10 AEA 45-min demo evaluation-specific methodology JDMS.pdf
Evaluators entering the world of Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institutes are often struck by the complexity of evaluating these institutions. Each CTSA encompasses several cores, or research service providers (i.e., drug discovery and development, biomedical informatics, or...
FINAL Poster_10_4_13.pdf
This AEA 2013 conference presentation describes a framework involving six steps for assessing needs across multiple states, stakeholders, and topic areas for a regional education lab funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, REL Appalachia. A description with examples of the purpose and...
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A foundation of successful interventions (projects, policies, etc.) is that we make decisions about "what" before decisions about "how". Yet all of us frequently make less-than-optimal decisions for lots of reasons - such as a lack of time, limited knowledge of options, or reliance on...
The turn of the Century brought with it opportunities and challenges for evaluators: interest in performance monitoring and data-based decision making; new tools for communication and social networking; and technological advances in data collection and analysis. As the new Century continues, we...
Challenges and Opportunities for Needs Assessment and Program Planning in the 21st Century-Final.pptx
This is presentation slides for the Skill Building Workshop at AEA 2013 conference. The presenters of the workshop "Needs Assessment and Asset/Capacity Building" are: James. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee. #SkillBuilding #NeedsAssessment #needs assessment #2013Conference
AEA 2013_Skill building Workshop_Needs Assessmentand Asset.pptx
Attached file contains the slides for the following three presentations (all part of the multi-paper session named above): - When You Know What You Don't Know; Using the Needs Assessment to Understand Community Attitudes Toward Adolescent Sexuality - Developing Partnership Approaches to...
Suiter, Mathes & Brown_AEA 2013_Needs Assessment Presentation.pdf