Thanks for sharing, Ryan. All the topics seem to quite interesting. I am particularly interested in reading the following: *•A Primer on Needs Assessment: More Than 40 Years of Research and Practice(pages 5–18) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20099/abstract>* *•Needs: Defining What You Are Assessing (pages 19–31) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20100/abstract>* *•Needs Assessments to Determine Training Requirements (pages 61–74) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20103/abstract>* *•Needs Assessment and Asset/Capacity Building: A Promising Development in Practice (pages 89–103) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20105/abstract>* *•A Final Note About Improving Needs Assessment Research and Practice (pages 105–114) <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20106/abstract>* If you could give me access to these, it would be great. Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge and work. Regards, Akanksha Sharma On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Ryan Watkins <rwatkins@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This is the first message since moving over to the listserv. We are a > small group of participants at this point but I want to test it out before > we get much bigger. > > Last year Jim Altschuld and I edited a special issue of New Directions in > Evaluation focused on the topic of Needs Assessment. It was published in > December and here is a link to the Table of Contents: > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.2014.2014.issue-144/issuetoc > I can't send out copies of all the chapters to everyone, but if there are > a couple that you would really like to read please let me know and I will > share the PDFs. > > And please share the listserv with your friends and colleagues that might > be interested. > > Ryan > > > Ryan Watkins, Ph.D. > George Washington University > Websites: > www.WeShareScience.com (an online science fair) > www.NeedsAssessment.org (all things needs assessment) > www.RyanRWatkins.com (resume, books, articles, etc.) > > Follow @WeShareScience on Twitter <https://twitter.com/WeShareScience> > > Follow WeShareScience on Facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/wesharescience> > > >