What a difference a degree makes Evaluating practice

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What (a) difference a degree
makes?Evaluating practice
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Remit of the Evaluation

• Application, Recruitment Retention
• The Teaching Learning Experience
• Practice Learning Experience
• Innovations
• Entering the Workforce.

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Previous research

• Preparedness for practice
• Application of knowledge
• Identification of different knowledges
• Relationship of knowledge and practice
  (criticality).

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Methodology

• Realistic evaluation
• Case studies
• Vignettes

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Realistic evaluation

• Context
• Process
• Outcomes

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Case studies

• Documentary analysis
• Interviews key course staff
• Focus groups with students
• Focus groups with service users and carers
• Practice assessor questionnaire
• Vignettes

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Vignettes

• Context
• Aims of the research
• Why use vignettes?
• The use of vignettes in previous research

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Vignettes (2)

• Process
• Developing the vignettes
• Administering the vignettes
• Practical issues
• Ethical issues

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Vignettes (3)

• Developing a framework for analysis
• Analysis form
• Quantitative analysis
• Inductive analysis
• Making use of existing theoretical knowledge
• (e.g. Dreyfus and Dreyfus, 1986, Fook et al,
  2000, Ford et al, 2004, 2005)

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Emergent themes

• Non-pathologising / pathologising
• Structural/ political awareness/ inequalities
• Untheorised
• Uncynical approach/ optimism
• Task/ service orientation
• Lay language
• Social work role/ purpose not defined
• Individual focused
• Inattention to process of relationships
• Risk/ prioritising