A Conceptual Framework for Identifying and Assessing Needs in Postsecondary Education. AIR Forum Paper 1978.

Autor/in	Lenning, Oscar T.
Institution	Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.
Titel	A Conceptual Framework for Identifying and Assessing Needs in Postsecondary Education. AIR Forum Paper 1978.
Quelle	(1978), (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Planning; Decision Making; Educational Needs; Educational Objectives; Information Needs; Information Utilization; Institutional Research; Literature Reviews; Models; Needs Assessment; Postsecondary Education; Problems; Resource Allocation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienplanung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Information need; Informationsbedürfnis; Informationsnutzung; Institutionelle Forschung; Analogiemodell; Bedarfsermittlung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Problemsituation; Ressourcenallokation
Abstract	In order to sort out a comprehensible total picture regarding needs assessment and to develop a useful conceptual framework for this area, a comprehensive review of the needs assessment literature pertinent to the concerns of postsecondary education was conducted. The review found that needs assessment is a viable tool for input to planning, but serious problems exist. These include: (1) lack of a good definition of need; (2) difficulty in separating real need from wants and demands; (3) lack of valid and reliable measures and indicators of met and unmet need; (4) lack of useful taxonomies of needs; (5) tendency of many needs assessors to be imprecise about whose needs are of concern, and to not consider different groups separately; (6) tendency to focus on goals in needs assessment rather than let needs data help the institution evaluate and reformulate its goals; (7) tendency to be imprecise concerning which decisionmakers will use the needs data, and how; (8) failure to make use of relevant secondary data and to overcome the possible pitfalls inherent in such data; (9) difficulty of integrating "soft" with "hard" data; and (10) the tendency to make decisions using over-simplified decision rules. This information provides a framework to assist in overcoming such problems and for evaluating needs assessment models. (Author/JMD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC