Needs assessment surveys: Do they predict attendance at continuing education workshops?

Journal of Extension

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Malmsheimer, Robert W ^a   Germain, René H ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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