A training needs assessment of UW-Stout resident advisors

Abstract

This research provided a training needs assessment of Resident Advisors on the University of Wisconsin-Stout campus. This was accomplished using a two-stage data gathering process. The first stage consisted of obtaining task inventories from five Resident Advisors using structured interviews and obtaining data from the Housing & Residence Life administrative staff during a meeting. The results of these interviews and the meeting were combined by the researcher with the 2003-2004 Resident Advisor Competencies & Learning Objectives established by the Housing & Residence Life department to design a survey that was administered online to all 94 Resident Advisors on the University of Wisconsin-Stout campus.