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ERIC Number: EJ992706
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Nov
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1049-7315
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Teaching Research and Practice Evaluation Skills to Graduate Social Work Students
Wong, Stephen E.; Vakharia, Sheila P.
Research on Social Work Practice, v22 n6 p714-718 Nov 2012
Objective: The authors examined outcomes of a graduate course on evaluating social work practice that required students to use published research, quantitative measures, and single-system designs in a simulated practice evaluation project. Method: Practice evaluation projects from a typical class were analyzed for the number of research references cited, type of client, goals or problems, measures, interventions, single-system designs, and outcomes. Results: More than half of the students conducted self-improvement projects monitored with self-report measures, and goals or problems selected and interventions applied varied widely. More than 80% of the projects were evaluated with simple AB designs, over 45% of which were associated with statistically significant improvements and an additional 43% showed gains that did not reach statistical significance. Conclusions: Results suggest that students can be taught techniques and skills needed to formulate interventions derived from published research and to evaluate effects of these interventions using single-system designs. (Contains 1 table.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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