Needs Assessment and Planning Health Promotion Programs is a senior- level online course for students seeking a bachelor's degree in health promotion. Historically this course has had the learning objective of helping students demonstrate an understanding of how to plan the assessment process, from the analysis of a planning model through to the…

The survey revealed those activities perceived by school and college personnel to be of most value in pursuit of open strategies. Rankings by item weights revealed the value each respondent group placed on needs, most prominent of which was preparation of teachers to assume roles in open education. (Author/NQ)

Describes how, over two years, a steering committee at Cherokee Lane Elementary School (Maryland), which was intended to plan, implement, and evaluate an elementary guidance program, dealt with problems of discrepant perceptions of children's needs by children, parents, and teachers. (MH)