The concept of needs and educational assessment is a blending of community participation and evaluation. There are four primary steps in this concept: goal definition, program assessment, needs identification, and decision making. This document offers a guideline model aimed at a simple, economical method of needs and educational assessment. It offers an orderly system of planning and development in helping to develop proposed methods of assessment as well as a suggested format for each concept. Sample plans, reports, and ranking methods for data collection are included in the appendixes. (Author/DEP)