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Hi, I am very interested in using the results of need assessments to designing projects. Yet, I am not sure about how it is related to community service. So, could you please kindly tell me why need assessments are important in community development?

Hi, I am very interested in using the results of need assessments to designing projects. Yet, I am not sure about how it is related to community service. So, could you please kindly tell me why ne ...

JosephHodges

16 December 2021

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Hi, friend. When I am measuring community services with quantitative methods, does it mean that we shall try to use interval and ration level measures?

JosephHodges

16 December 2021

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I hope to see how many welfare services the residents in the public estate have received. Therefore, in the questionnaire, I have set the options as “none,” “a little,” and “a lot.” Is it a kind of ordinal level of measurement?

I hope to see how many welfare services the residents in the public estate have received. Therefore, in the questionnaire, I have set the options as “none,” “a little,” and “a lot.” Is it a kind o ...

StephenLawrence

16 December 2021

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Following my previous question, can I give options such as public and private housing when I try to measure housing type among community-dwelling people?

StephenLawrence

16 December 2021

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When conducting community development services, we often need to investigate the housing types of residents. May I ask what kind of measurement it is, nominal or ordinal?

MadeleineHemmings

15 December 2021

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Hi, there. Sometimes we need to conduct focus groups to collect views from residents and other stakeholders. May I ask the usual size of a focus group?

MadeleineHemmings

15 December 2021

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Our center provides services to enhance communication between the government and residents. When we try to record the opinion of residents during a project, what kind of data is it?

PiersWilkins

15 December 2021

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If I plan to add qualitative methods into my program evaluation on a community project and I further hope to use triangulation to increase the credibility, do you get any practical suggestions for my specific methods?

If I plan to add qualitative methods into my program evaluation on a community project and I further hope to use triangulation to increase the credibility, do you get any practical suggestions for ...

PiersWilkins

15 December 2021

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Hi, I am very interested in the Neighborhood Level Community Development Project (NLCDP). Could anyone give me a clue about what the role it plays?

EllaFraser

15 December 2021

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Hello. When we are trying to explore the deep meaning of some community heritages, in a historical or cultural approach, which theoretical perspective is more appropriate? Positivism or interpretivism?

Hello. When we are trying to explore the deep meaning of some community heritages, in a historical or cultural approach, which theoretical perspective is more appropriate? Positivism or interpreti ...

EllaFraser

15 December 2021

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Hi there! When I am reading journal papers, I often see the term “large-scale.” May I ask how we could determine whether an evaluation belongs to the “large” or “small” scale in a community program?

BlakeBower

13 December 2021

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Following the previous post, so, compared to external evaluators, an internal evaluator could be an employee of the community center being evaluated. Am I right?

BlakeBower

13 December 2021

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