Needs Assessment

Research shows 90 percent of Kuder system users transition into postsecondary education.

Kuder Community Career Needs Assessment

Let us help you evaluate your community’s career needs.

The Kuder® Community Career Needs Assessment™ (CCNA)  is a customized and comprehensive evaluation of your key stakeholders’ awareness, acceptance, and application of program initiatives. The CCNA provides both qualitative and quantitative data to reveal current conditions and help create a roadmap for the future.

Confidential, brief CCNA surveys typically gather the viewpoints of students and parents/guardians, alumni, school personnel, and community partners. The surveys provide an accurate measure of career education programming awareness, acceptance, and application.

Features

CCNA survey results may be instrumental in providing tangible data for:

  • Program evaluation and sustainability.
  • Goal setting.
  • Increased communication among program participants, staff, and community partners.
  • Gaining greater parent/community support.

Each CCNA survey contains items that are mapped to four key areas:

  • Career Development – Activities that contribute to individual’s knowledge of their interests and skills, opportunities in the world of work, and ways of gaining entry into a chosen field.
  • School-Based Learning – Activities based in an educational or training institution that promote the understanding and skills needed to attain challenging and rewarding employment.
  • Work-Based Learning – Activities based in the community of employers that reveal the attitudes and skills required and opportunities that work affords.
  • Connecting Links – Activities in which individuals, professional staff, families, and employers work together to aid the career development of target populations.

Additional CCNA Services

  • Quality Improvement Reports – Annual reassessments are available for schools conducting annual consecutive assessments.
  • Focus Group Facilitation – Kuder can facilitate focus groups composed of contributing populations.