ASSESSMENT DOMAIN
ASSESSMENT DOMAIN
DEFINITION: Interpreting trends and patterns in the data and deciding how to organize, classify, interrelate, compare, prioritize, and present them. This includes understanding the needs of the defined population, community, or geographic area; reviewing the resources that are required and available; identifying gaps; and gauging the level of community readiness.
Knowledge of how to sort information into categories for analysis.
Knowledge of variables that measure public health conditions.
Knowledge of statistical methodologies, how statistical surveys are performed, and what results mean.
Describing the prevention applications of quantitative and qualitative data.
Integrating and synthesizing information from multiple written materials. Reading and summarizing technical papers, understanding tabular and graphical presentations of data, and translating them for a nontechnical audience.
Exploring data and determining patterns to look for relevant interventions.
Representing results in a meaningful way to different types of professional and nonprofessional audiences, using appropriate graphics and data.
Ability to judge the value of information and resources, with judgments based on definite criteria.
Ability to analyze and evaluate data and information, recognizing meaningful results, interpreting results, and presenting the results in useful and culturally competent ways to different types of audiences.
Ability to recognize the reliability, validity, and comparability of data.
Ability to apply the core functions of assessment and policy development in the analysis of prevention problems and their solutions.