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Needs Assessment: The Perspective From the Public Sector
While examining needs is common in many public‐sector agencies, questions arise about how it has been carried out and if a focus on deficits (or gaps) is too narrow when not accompanied by the assessment of assets. The authors operate in this chapter as actors in a play. The first author offers a short personal perspective about her long experience in the public sector, with emphasis on Extension and the nature of needs assessment within it. In that discussion are two illuminative historical examples with clear relevance to what we might do today. They demonstrate that linking asset‐thinking to such efforts might be a good thing when embarking upon improvement of programs for the public. The second author enters in by amplifying the examination of assets and how they might be linked to the thinking of public‐sector assessors. The authors conclude by recommending that such an expansion of the toolkit of needs assessors would be useful.
Needs Assessment: The Perspective From the Public Sector
While examining needs is common in many public‐sector agencies, questions arise about how it has been carried out and if a focus on deficits (or gaps) is too narrow when not accompanied by the assessment of assets. The authors operate in this chapter as actors in a play. The first author offers a short personal perspective about her long experience in the public sector, with emphasis on Extension and the nature of needs assessment within it. In that discussion are two illuminative historical examples with clear relevance to what we might do today. They demonstrate that linking asset‐thinking to such efforts might be a good thing when embarking upon improvement of programs for the public. The second author enters in by amplifying the examination of assets and how they might be linked to the thinking of public‐sector assessors. The authors conclude by recommending that such an expansion of the toolkit of needs assessors would be useful.
Needs Assessment: The Perspective From the Public Sector
Engle, Molly (author) / Altschuld, James W. (author)
New Directions for Evaluation ; 2014 ; 33-45
2014-12-01
13 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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