Welcome to NeedsAssessment.org
NeedsAssessment.org is an online resource site offering everything from research articles to podcast interviews on the subject of Needs Assessments. Though Needs Assessments are used in a variety of professions and setting (for example, by physicians in the emergency room) t
he focus of NeedsAssessment.org is on the application of assessments in the pursuit of improvinghuman and organizational performance. Within this context, Needs Assessments are used to identify strategic priorities, define results to be accomplished, guide decisions related to appropriate actions to be taken, establish evaluation criteria for making judgments of success, and inform the continual improvement of activities within organizations. Thus, from training to systems engineering, Needs Assessment play an active role in the accomplishment of individual, team, organizational, and even societal results.
To that end, NeedsAssessment.org offers a variety of resources to help practitioners in many disciplines apply the principles and techniques of Needs Assessment in their work. The sitealsoprovides foundational resources for authors, students, instructors, and others who want to study or teach about Needs Assessment from both pragmatic and theoretical perspectives. Ideally NeedsAssessment.org can be both the starting place of a search for information on Needs Assessment, as well as site that you return often to the most up-to-date information and links on numerous topics associated with the assessment of needs.
Where to start?
For students, researchers, practitioners and others, we have compiled numerous resources on the topic of Needs Assessment. Use the menus to left to explore the varied resources.