For this portion of the Final Project, you will conduct a needs assessment to identify a professional development need.

The first step in this process is to determine if professional development and instruction is really needed to address a specific performance problem. Sometimes the problem can be solved logistically, like re-arranging work flow processes.Other times, employees clearly need new instruction and training to complete the work. Your job is to find the gap between knowledge and performance.

You should choose a "real" problem. Think about the organizations to which you belong, courses you have taken, or your work place. What tasks do you see people struggling with? Refer to your text, power point presentations,and to to aid in identifying a potential topic of instruction you think could be helpful and fill a current learning gap.

Procedure:

Determine an instructional scenario where new or revised training is appropriate; where there is an obvious gap between knowledge and performance.

Determine what techniques you will use to gather data to substantiate the instructional need (surveys,questionnaires, interviews, etc).

Develop a needs assessment instrument.

Survey your target population/gather data.

Collect/analyze data.

Write a summary of the needs assessment data that includes the following:

a description of your target population based on your analysis

a description of the instructional need your team has uncovered

a description of the instructional solution your team will create

three to five instructional outcomes

With this assignment, your team has identified a potential knowledge gap, assessed the need for instruction, identified a topic to create, and described learning outcomes to use as you develop your training workshop.

You written report must include the following:

Instructional scenario with a problem; describe in one or more paragraphs.

Needs assessment instrument

List of target members from whom to collect data

Description and analysis of data collected

Survey of the needs assessment results; describe in one or more paragraphs.

Should be have 3-4 pages

Compnay is Apple