scholarly journals Conducting the Needs Assessment #10: The Delphi Technique

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Sanagorski Warner ◽  
Amy Harder
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Extension Educators ◽  
Needs Assessments

Previous publications in the Conducting the Needs Assessment series outlined why, how, and when Extension educators and other service providers should use needs assessments in their programs. The four preceding publications in the series provide Extension educators and other service providers with specific techniques that can be used in needs assessments, and this new 5-page publication provides an overview of using the Delphi technique to conduct a needs assessment. Written by Laura Warner and Amy Harder, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication.

scholarly journals Conducting the Needs Assessment #3: Educator Motivations, Barriers, and Objections

EDIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Benge
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Extension Educators ◽  
Needs Assessments

This third publication in the Conducting the Needs Assessment series outlines a range of motivations, barriers, and common objections Extension educators and other service providers may have pertaining to needs assessments. It is not an easy task to conduct a needs assessment, yet there are many motives for implementing one. This new 4-page publication of the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication discusses strategies for increasing educator motivation and removing barriers and objections to conducting a needs assessment. Written by Matt Benge.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc386

scholarly journals Conducting the Needs Assessment #2: Using Needs Assessments in Extension Programming

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Benge ◽  
Laura Warner
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Extension Educators ◽  
Needs Assessments ◽  
The Right

This second publication in the Conducting the Needs Assessment series provides Extension educators and other service providers with a foundational underpinning of how the needs assessment fits within the program planning process. Both formal and nonformal educators seeking to develop and deliver an educational program must first be informed of what their audience lacks in order to develop the right curriculum or training, and therefore conducting a needs assessment is a priority in the program development process. This new publication of the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication was written by Matthew Benge and Laura Warner.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc347

scholarly journals Conducting the Needs Assessment #4: Audience Motivations, Barriers, and Objections

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Laura A. Sanagorski Warner ◽  
Matt Benge
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Extension Educators ◽  
Needs Assessments ◽  
The Right

A successful needs assessment is contingent on participation from the right people, so understanding potential motivations, barriers, and objections specific to your participants is critical. This new 5-page publication, the fourth in the Conducting the Needs Assessment series, provides Extension educators and other service providers with an overview of motivations, barriers, and objections specific to participants in needs assessments. Written by Laura Warner and Matt Benge and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc342

scholarly journals Conducting the Needs Assessment #11: Causal Analysis Techniques

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Harder
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Extension Educators ◽  
Consequence Analysis

This new 3-page publication in the Conducting the Needs Assessment series provides Extension educators and other service providers with an introduction to two techniques that can easily be used when seeking information about relationships between causes and needs: fishboning and cause and consequence analysis. Written by Amy Harder and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc352

scholarly journals THE SAGE SYMPOSIUM: A MODEL FOR HANDS-ON INTERACTIVE CONTINUING EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S725-S726
Author(s):  
Becky Powers
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Education ◽  
Breakout Session ◽  
Needs Assessments ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Health Fair ◽  
Assessment Skills

Abstract Current graduate and postgraduate medical education has minimal geriatric and palliative care curricular requirements, leaving Continuing Education (CE) programs poised to fill a critical educational niche. The San Antonio Geriatric and Palliative Education (SAGE) Symposium was a 3 day long interprofessional CE conference for providers caring for older adults. SAGE addressed geriatric knowledge, skill, and attitude deficits in practicing providers by incorporating: 1) a community and provider based needs assessment, 2) active skills sessions culminating in a health fair, and 3) multimedia based reflective exercises. Needs Assessment (Knowledge): A video needs assessments of older adults were performed using a convenience sampling methodology in 13 non-healthcare public locations in each quadrant of the city. 23 respondents were interviewed before reaching thematic saturation with 3 main themes: geriatric syndromes, patient-provider relationships, and support. Content areas for the course were derived from the needs assessment. Skills Sessions (Skills): In addition to standard plenary sessions, multiple active breakout session taught attendees common geriatric skills. On the last day of the conference, attendees applied these skills under supervision at a senior community health fair. Reflective Exercises (Attitudes): Videos, poems, and artwork with themes on aging were displayed during conference breaks. Attendees received CE credit for electronically submitting short reflections to each multimedia piece. Reflections were compiled and reported back to the group at the end of the conference. By changing the traditional CE conference format to an interactive experience, the SAGE Symposium was able to address knowledge, skills, and attitudes towards aging in its attendees.

Results of Rapid Needs Assessments in Rural and Urban Iowa Following Large-scale Flooding Events in 2008

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Quinlisk ◽  
Mary J. Jones ◽  
Nathan A. Bostick ◽  
Lauren E. Walsh ◽  
Rebecca Curtiss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Needs Assessments ◽  
Acute Injuries ◽  
Ongoing Surveillance

ABSTRACTBackground: On June 8 and 9, 2008, more than 4 inches of rain fell in the Iowa-Cedars River Basin causing widespread flooding along the Cedar River in Benton, Linn, Johnson, and Cedar Counties. As a result of the flooding, there were 18 deaths, 106 injuries, and over 38 000 people displaced from their homes; this made it necessary for the Iowa Department of Health to conduct a rapid needs assessment to quantify the scope and effect of the floods on human health.Methods: In response, the Iowa Department of Public Health mobilized interview teams to conduct rapid needs assessments using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based cluster sampling techniques. The information gathered was subsequently employed to estimate the public health impact and significant human needs that resulted from the flooding.Results: While these assessments did not reveal significant levels of acute injuries resulting from the flood, they did show that many households had been temporarily displaced and that future health risks may emerge as the result of inadequate access to prescription medications or the presence of environmental health hazards.Conclusions: This exercise highlights the need for improved risk communication measures and ongoing surveillance and relief measures. It also demonstrates the utility of rapid needs assessment survey tools and suggests that increasing use of such surveys can have significant public health benefits.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2011;5:287–292)

Moving towards meaningful local population health data: The service provider perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Ruth ◽  
Rosalind Hurworth ◽  
Nabil Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Using Data

Increasingly, primary care services are required to use data to assess their local population's health needs and plan services. This paper reports focus group discussions of service providers' perceived current practice, issues and needs related to obtaining and using data for planning services in two local government areas of Melbourne. Six groups were conducted with nominees from two municipal councils, four divisions of general practice, three community health services, three hospital networks and eight community organizations. Two groups were conducted with planners and data providers from the Department of Human Services, Victoria. The 66 participants had a broad range of experience in using data to assess local population health needs. Participants reported that issues limiting the use of data related to: access to data (lack of awareness, contacting the right person, poor communication between data providers and users, resource constraints, lack of central access); gaps in data; quality of data (inconsistent definitions and collection, currency, ties to funding); applicability of data (unfriendly format, problems with aggregated versus small area data, non-matching data sets, lack of contextual information); and support for data use in local population health planning. If local population needs assessment is to lead to better health outcomes, service providers need access to high quality data presented in formats that are applicable to their communities. They also need practicable planning methods, skills training and support in using data for local population needs assessment and service planning.

Foresight for E-paper development in Taiwan

foresight ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Hung Hsieh ◽  
Chien-Huei Lin ◽  
Jia-Ling Huang
Keyword(s):  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Flexible Display ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Handheld Device ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
International Investors ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to analyse the impact of e-paper on many existing industries including paper, publishing, book distribution, display, handheld device manufacturers and content service providers. Flexible display has been studied by many institutes, firms and market research companies. Some believe that e-paper is an exceptional application for flexible display, and the need for flexible display development for handheld devices and cloud-based e-book content is indisputable. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the Delphi technique and STEEP (Sociological, Technological, Economic, Environmental and Political aspects) with a panel to analyse a business model and the opportunity for the development of e-paper in Taiwan up to the year 2020. Findings The study concludes that e-paper content and customised digital services are an essential part of e-paper development, while hardware and cloud data are no more than a mechanism to show, compute and store data. Thus, whether the screen of a handheld device is flexible may not be of importance. Although e-paper will affect the display industry, it will not substitute for handheld devices and traditional bookstores. Originality/value This research can be used as a reference for government, academics, industry and international investors.

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