Needs assessment—a digest, review, and comparison of needs assessment literature

Watkins, Ryan; Leigh, Doug; Platt, William A.; Kaufman, Roger

doi:10.1002/pfi.4140370711

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“…Are they in harmony or disconnected? In the assessment literature there is a cacophony of terms; multiple descriptions, models, and processes are offered, many times used interchangeably (Rossett, ; Triner, Greenberry, Watkins, ; Watkins, Leigh, Platt, & Kaufman, ). Certainly, our jobs as assessors would be easier if the definitions were in concert; however, the literature features different voices, concepts, and practices.…”

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Needs Assessments to Determine Training Requirements

Lepicki

Boggs

2014

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This chapter gives the reader a close look at what a workforce development needs assessment might entail, as well as the twists and turns that are inevitably encountered in almost any assessment of this type. The authors describe a case example in the context of direct service providers (home healthcare personnel, nursing assistants, and so forth) and a complex needs assessment project in this area that employed a three‐phase model of needs assessment. They note that the phases, which seem distinct on paper, blur and overlap in practice so that rigid adherence to them must be tempered by what the real world imposes on the situation. In the last part of the chapter the role and stance of those collecting and analyzing needs data are examined, as well as lessons learned from having to make various adjustments to the assessment process as it moves forward.

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Needs Assessments to Determine Training Requirements

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2014

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“…None of these models formally identifies needs, gaps in results and consequences, for external clients and society, which is the extended "reach" of PAS. Another way to cut the pie is to look at different intentions and different scopes of concern as well as the direction of the flow for starting and then adding value (Watkins, Leigh, & Kaufman, 1998). This view of our field and what we can and should provide is shown in Figure 2 in terms of the major focus and whether we are reactive (the usual starting place) or proactive.…”

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Value, value where is the value?

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2003

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“…A needs assessment is a process by which gaps between what-is results and what-should-be results are defined and prioritized based on the cost to meet the need versus the cost to ignore the need (Kaufman, 2000). This process of needs assessment provides decisionmakers with the information necessary to make rational judgments as to which needs must be addressed, and in which order (Watkins et al, 1998). Additionally, resources can then also be allocated based on these determinations.…”

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