Evaluation Practice
Thinking and Action Principles for Social Work Practice
Published on 9. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-534-54391-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents both the quantitative and qualitative methods and focuses on teaching students how to skillfully apply the full range of research designs, methods and strategies to evaluation of social work in all domains of social work practice. The book provides a framework for the integration of systematic inquiry with practice that can be used by all social workers. The authors have created a model called, "evaluation practice" that provides the evidence-based structure within which diverse social work theories and skills can be organized, examined and verified.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-54391-4 (9780534543914)
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Content
Section 1: BEGINNINGS. 1. Introduction to Evaluation Practice. 2. The Conceptual Framework of Evaluation Practice. 3. Roles and Responsibilities of Social Workers in Evaluation Practice. Section 2: THINKING PROCESSES OF EVALUATION PRACTICE. 4. Identifying Social Work Problems and Issues. 5. Obtaining and Organizing Information. 6. Ascertaining Need. 7. Examining Need with Previously Supported Approaches--Designing Experimental-Type Inquiry. 8. Obtaining Information in Experimental-type Needs Assessment. 9. Ascertaining Need in Unexamined Contexts--Designing Qualitative Inquiry. 10. Goals and Objectives. Section 3: REFLECTIVE INTERVENTION. 11. Intervention Selection and Reflexive Intervention. 12. Thinking Processes of Reflexive Intervention. 13. Action Processes of Reflexive Intervention. Section 4: ASSESSING OUTCOMES. 14. Thinking Processes in Outcomes Assessment. 15. Action Processes Of Outcomes Research--Looking At Group Outcome. 16. Outcome Assessment Using Idiographic Designs--Investigating Outcome through Naturalistic, Mixed Method and Case Study Design. Section 5: CONCLUSION. 17. Sharing Evaluation Practice Knowledge. 18. Conclusions. Evaluation Practice Glossary. References. Appendix A: Data Analysis Refresher. Index.