Rebecca Reviere

Needs Assessment

A Creative And Practical Guide For Social Scientists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text offers steps to follow and strategic considerations for designing, planning and carrying out research, as well as analyzing and disseminating the findings. The reader is instructed in developing an integrated matrix to service as a blueprint for the research design and introduced to methods of employing both primary and secondary data and qualitative data collection and analysis.

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First published in 1997. A well-planned, methodically sound needs assessment can and should be a powerful guiding force for change. As a type of applied social research, needs assessment is meant to foster program development and policy-making. Needs assessments can be used as information-gathering tools by a wide range of organizations, agencies, and social scientists at local, state, regional, and national levels, and can be conducted under a variety of arrangements. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the needs assessment process, from conceptualization through implementation and dissemination of findings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781560323761
• ISBN-10: 1560323760
• Artikelnr.: 21812046

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Reviere, Susan Berkowitz, Carolyn C. Carter, Carolyn Graves Ferguson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Stage
Rebecca Reviere
Susan Berkowitz
Carolyn C. Carter
Carolyn Graves Ferguson; Part 1 Understanding and Developing Needs Assessment; Chapter 2 Creating the Research Design for a Needs Assessment
Susan Berkowitz; Chapter 3 Taking the Sample Survey Approach
Susan Berkowitz; Chapter 4 Using Qualitative and Mixed-Method Approaches
Susan Berkowitz; Chapter 5 Planning a Needs Assessment
Rebecca Reviere
Carolyn C. Carter; Part 2 Case Studies: Various Approaches; Chapter 6 Assessing the AIDS-Related Needs of Women in an Urban Housing Development
Robin L. Miller
Elizabeth E. Solomon; Chapter 7 Assessing Child and Maternal Health: The First Step in the Design of Community-Based Interventions
E. Walter Terrie; Chapter 8 Assessing the Needs of the Elderly: Two Approaches
Susan Berkowitz
Carolyn C. Carter
Carolyn Graves Ferguson
Rebecca Reviere; Part 3 Dissemination and Future Strategies; Chapter 9 Using and Communicating Findings
Carolyn C. Carter; Chapter 10 Building for Future Needs Assessments
Rebecca Reviere
Susan Berkowitz;