Information from (1) questionnaires completed by present and former students, parents, educators, and business men, (2) government agency reports, (3) school records, and (4) agricultural employer surveys in 24 geographic areas which included all the counties (1) determined the need for additional occupational training, (2) identified major…

The purpose of this study was to provide an adequate base of knowledge for the development of a local three-year master plan for staff development for education personnel. The plan should reflect specific needs identified through organized self-study and analysis by professional staff, students, and parents. The following opinion surveys and needs…

Reports an interview survey of 200 community leaders in Louisiana regarding the general quality of life, government, economy, human development, and physical facilities. Special attention is given to implications for extension programing. (JT)

This instrument was developed to assist educational leaders in the collection of data relating to the attitudes of their publics on vital social and educational concerns. It classifies the concerns under: social problems, school program, teachers and instruction, administration, students, and index of attitude toward change. It provides for…

Two problem identification surveys conducted to support Extension Community and Resource Development programs in South Carolina's rural Williamsburg County focused on some implications for citizen involvement in public decision making, specifically in rural community development. A 1975 survey of 41 leaders and 1976 citizen survey of 214 rural…

This study, the third in a series, is designed to assist both the public schools and the University in developing fast, efficient techniques for needs assessment, whereby the programs of both public education and higher education may be improved to meet the needs of the clientele that each serves. The first study, involving 46 school districts,…

A study of the unmet postsecondary educational needs of residents of a five-county area in northeastern Pennsylvania was conducted by means of surveys of 10,000 high school students, 10,000 adults, and 76 area employers. In addition, educational statistics of the area populations and an analysis of constraining geographic and economic factors were…

Iowa legislators responded to the national accountability trend in 1975 by mandating a statewide needs assessment. This paper examines the activities of fifteen selected districts in terms of: (1) a statistical analysis of community, teacher, and student rankings of eighteen cognitive and affective educational goals; (2) statistical analysis of…

In an effort to serve several purposes with the same instrument, a questionnaire was designed so that respondents could indicate their requirements for information concerning schools, to rank goals and objectives, and make determination as to which aspects of a child's development were primarily a home responsibility and which aspects were the…

A needs assessment survey was conducted in the Meadowfair neighborhood of the southern part of Eastside San Jose (California) during January and February 1975. Its purpose was to poll community feelings and experiences in regard to careers--whether people understood that word to mean present employment, a future goal, or any purposeful life…

In order to provide a direction for this school district's compliance with the Colorado Accountability Act, a needs assessment survey was developed. The method of approach, format and item selection, testing of the instrument, population samples, sizes and significance, and processing of the data are described in an introduction. The Satisfaction…