A practical guide to needs assessment
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A practical guide to needs assessment
Wiley, c2014
3rd ed. / Catherine Sleezer, Darlene Russ-Eft, Kavita Gupta
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Note
Revised edition of: A practical guide to needs assessment / Kavita Gupta ; updated and expanded by Catherine M. Sleezer and Darlene F. Russ-Eft, 2nd ed
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-392) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment, Third Edition
For fifteen years, A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment has been the go-to text for those who are seeking useful, systematic approaches to needs assessment. Needs assessment is the first step in training, performance improvement, and community development projects.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition contains a treasury of resources including a toolkit of ready-to-use templates and job aids that you can customize for your own use. Illustrative case studies and tips show how to assess needs for individuals, teams, organizations, government agencies, and communities.
This book combines a how-to text and reference tool for trainers, performance improvement professionals, and students. Managers and community leaders use it to get to the root of their learning and performance problems, make effective decisions, and obtain support for their most pressing issues.
Updates to the third edition include:
Links to online resources, including a needs assessment book that you can download for free, ethical guidelines, and vendors who assess individual, group and organizational needs.
A new chapter on the complex needs assessment approach with new toolkit forms.
A summary of the recent advances in our knowledge about learning, training, and performance that you can use to quickly prepare for client meetings.
Guidelines on workforce surveys, such as employee engagement surveys.
An Instructor's Guide that contains discussion questions, assessments materials, and new exercises for each chapter.
You can use this book to quickly access up-to-date information on the fundamentals of needs assessment including current models, theories, and resources. You can also learn how to manage and report a needs assessment project and access professional ethical guidelines. Learn five approaches to needs assessment: knowledge and skills analysis, job and task analysis, competency-based needs assessment, strategic needs assessment, and complex needs assessment.
Table of Contents
List of Figures vi
List of Needs Assessment Toolkit Forms ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT
ONE Overview of Needs Assessment 15
TWO Ideas and Models Th at Guide Practice 35
THREE Strategies for Collecting and Analyzing Data 51
PART TWO: GETTING DOWN TO BRASS TACKS
FOUR Knowledge and Skills Assessment 89
FIVE Job and Task Analysis 117
SIX Competency-Based Needs Assessment 145
SEVEN Strategic Needs Assessment 173
EIGHT Complex Needs Assessment 205
PART THREE: MANAGING A NEEDS ASSESSMENT
NINE Writing Proposals and Reports 231
TEN Dealing with Ethical Issues 257
ELEVEN Answers to Frequently Asked Questions 271
PART FOUR: NEEDS ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT
Toolkit Forms 291
Glossary 367
References 379
Index 393
About the Authors
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