A social worker's guide to evaluating practice outcomes / Bruce A. Thyer and Laura L. Myers.
"Thyer and Myers have written an easy-to-read primer on the topic of empirically evaluating the outcomes of social work practice. This resource, for social work students--graduate and undergraduate-- and for social work practitioners, presents outcome studies using both group-research and single-cas...
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Alexandria, Va. :
Council on Social Work Education,
[2007], ©2007.
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| Physical Description: | x, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- A Brief Overview of Evaluation Research. Some background on evaluating practice outcomes
- Selecting and Locating Outcome Measures Useful in the Evaluation of Practice. What is assessment?
- Measuring observable behavior
- Rapid assessment instruments
- Physiological measures
- Reliability of measurement
- Validity in measurement
- Avoid weak, invalid or bogus assessment methods
- Bias in using various assessment methods
- Single System Designs. General principles and notation
- Pre-experimental designs
- Experimental designs
- Can selected SSDs be considered actual experiments?
- How to report and interpret data
- How to graph data
- Obstacles to using SSDs
- Summary
- Group Evaluation Designs. General principles and notation
- Sampling
- Preexperimental designs
- Quasi-experimental designs
- Experimental designs
- How to report and interpret data
- Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Evaluation Research. We have an obligation to evaluate our own practice
- Issues of informed consent
- Institutional review board review and approval
- What about publishing your evaluation research?
- Who should co-author your evaluation studies with you?
- Keep and share your data, as responsibly requested
- Some Myths, Misconceptions, and Practical Considerations in Evaluation.