Intensive
Needs Assessment
Intensive needs assessment
requires the ranking of priorities. While there are many methods to rank needs,
it is important to develop ranking criteria. Feasibility is often used as
criteria, but it is often useful for a group to identify their own set of
criteria. This part of the research is not so much concerned with developing a
detailed plan for solving the needs situation, but rather for examining the
depth of the need and potentially required resources. Force field analysis,
developed by Kurt Lewin, is one method for facilitating determining needs
feasibility. An example taken from Stoecker1 states that if, “for example,
feasibility is defined as degree of staff expertise and time, or funds to buy
expertise and time, the force field analysis can look for data indicating
available staff expertise and time and/or available external funds and
expertise.” The illustration below displays a model force field analysis.
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