Program Evaluation

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Program Evaluation

• The Essence of Social Work Research

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A Typology of Evaluation

• Formative and Summative
• Program improvement and program evaluation
• In-house and external
• Agendas the political nature of program
  evaluation

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Assessment Methodology

• What is the unit of analysis?
• What is the dependent variable?
• Benchmark
• Goal attainment
• Significant change
• Cost effectiveness
• Cost benefit

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Methods, continued

• Experimental or quasi-experimental
• Case study
• Qualitative and quantitative the false
  dichotomy

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Class Exercise

• Get into four groups
• Consider a social service program you are
  associated with
• Outline an evaluation strategy
• Identify the threats to validity of findings

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Other Class Business

• Formative evaluation of course
• Single system design
• How are you doing?
• Creating Graphs in Word
• Review homework assignment