Your Complete Resource Site on Needs and Needs Assessments.
| Needs, or gaps in results,
are the foundation of decisions in most professions and
settings -- from physicians in emergency rooms to
managers in office buildings. Needs define the results
we want to accomplish in relation to our current
achievements, and we define them either formally or
informally on a daily basis. The assessment of needs is
therefore done in the pursuit of improving performance
(or closing gaps in results) in a variety of
contexts.
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 Assessments play an
active role in the accomplishment of individual, team,
organizational, and even societal results. To that end, we hope to offer a variety of resources to help practitioners in many disciplines apply the principles and techniques of Needs Assessment in their work. The site also provides foundational resources for authors, students, instructors, and others who want to study or teach about Needs Assessment from both pragmatic and theoretical perspectives. Ideally GapsInResults.com can be both the starting place of a search for information on Needs and 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.
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