Needs Assessment & Instrument Development
Needs assessment projects find out what a group needs, often through a survey. Some also build a new instrument. Both depend on asking the right people the right questions, and on being honest about who answered and what the instrument can show.
Common mistakes for this type
- Writing a new survey when a published instrument already measures the same thing.
- Ignoring a low response rate or a sample that doesn't represent the group.
- Calling an instrument "validated" after only a small pilot or a single reliability coefficient.
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