Evaluation Reports upon completion of both internal and external evaluation studies. Needs Assessments Assessing needs before beginning to plan a program or devise policy is crucial to the success of the program or policy.
Effective planners avoid dealing with potential solutions before fully understanding the problem.
A well-conducted needs assessment helps us to fully understand the problem. We conduct needs assessment through tracking large sets of data, surveys of the Pacific region, and analyzing large-scale test score results. We conduct needs assessment in partnership with entity planning groups, individual programs within PREL, and outside agencies. Our goal in conducting needs assessment is to get the information needed to help programs both inside and outside PREL determine those aspects of a proposed program that are likely to be useful and productive and those aspects that are likely to be less useful or even wasteful. When this has been accomplished, productive program planning can begin.