Learning Needs Assessment for Evidence-Informed Decision Making

Do you know what you don’t know? The online Learning Needs Assessment for Evidence-Informed Decision Making can help you find out! This tool has 20 multiple-choice questions on topics that are important for evidence-informed decision making, including critical appraisal of evidence, interpreting research results and strategies for using evidence in practice. After completing the Learning Needs Assessment for Evidence-Informed Decision Making, you will receive a customized report from the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools that includes capacity-building resources to support you in building your skills and knowledge in evidence-informed decision making.

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Groups

You can also explore your learning needs for evidence-informed decision making as a group. You can customize the Learning Needs Assessment for Evidence-Informed Decision Making to your group’s needs and receive a report on your group’s strengths and learning needs. With this information, groups can support each other to identify and engage in evidence-informed decision making learning opportunities.

Not sure if you need the individual or group assessment? Explore the table below to identify whether the individual or group assessment is right for you!

Individual Assessment	Group Assessment
Personal professional development	Team professional development
Determine a potential hire’s understanding of evidence-informed decision making	Determine potential hires’ understanding of evidence-informed decision making
Provides links to evidence-informed decision making capacity-building resources	Provides links to evidence-informed decision making capacity-building resources
Individual report	Group report -The report has a feature to summarize results across iterations if you complete multiple rounds of the assessment with your group.
	Ability to customize -Obtain an anonymous report or a report with identifying information (only the group administrator will receive the report) -Use randomized questions or have everyone receive the same questions -Complete all 20 questions or only a subset of questions
	No limit to the number of people who can be part of a group

To set up a group assessment, email us at nccmt@mcmaster.ca.