Conducting Needs Assessments: A Multidisciplinary Approach / Edition 2

by Fernando I. Soriano

Overview

This thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling book Conducting Needs Assessment offers a brief, how-to guide that demystifies the process of planning a community intervention by helping both students and practitioners understand how to plan and conduct a needs assessment. Coverage includes planning the needs assessment, including the variety of methods used, survey methods and sample sizes, data collection and analysis, and reporting the findings.

To aid students' understanding, Soriano engages the students in the process of planning a community intervention by using clear, real-world examples and basic terms that have been updated to reflect current issues and HIPPA regulations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412965743
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/23/2012
Series:	SAGE Human Services Guides , #68
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Conceptual, Theoretical and Practical Considerations When Undertaking Needs Assessments
2. Sociopolitical and Economic Considerations
3. Social, Gender and Cultural Considerations
4. Quantitative Assessment Methods
5. Quantitative Data Preparation and Statistical Analysis
6. Qualitative Methods
7. Qualitative Data Preparation and Statistical Analysis
8. Recruiting and Collecting Data from Participants
9. Reporting and Presenting Study Findings
Appendix

Editorial Reviews

The Soriano text is excellent in providing graduate students with basic knowledge on how to conceptualize the needs assessment process, design the instruments for the study, and how to analyze and present the data. The value of this book is in its simplicity. The chapters are logical, building on the one before it. The style and readability of the text is excellent.

Frederick L. Ahearn

The book is user-friendly in that it is logically organized, provides examples and exercises, and presents a clear picture of the needs assessment process. The provision of real-life examples is particularly important and helpful to the reader, in that they make the content come to life.

Michael Woodford

The strength of the book is that it provides a quick and comprehensive overview of assessment. Upon reading the text, my students have been better prepared to learn (in more depth) the specific concepts covered in the book. It really has helped me ‘set the stage’ for my students to develop skills necessary to conduct an assessment (in-class learning), and apply their skills to a real-world situation (community-based assessment projects).

Ellen Lopez

An accessible yet technically sophisticated volume that guides readers from the planning and development stages of needs assessment to evaluating and reporting findings. In addition to the discussion of methods and statistical analyses, each chapter offers examples and exercises drawn from a wide range of public and private human and health services agencies. There is also a chapter on special considerations in working with cultural, gender, income, educational, and regional differences. A final chapter offers guidance on effective report writing. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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