Program Evaluation The Essence of Social Work Research

Program Evaluation The Essence of Social Work Research

A Typology of Evaluation Formative and Summative Program improvement and program evaluation In-house and external Agendas: the political nature of program evaluation

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

Methods, continued Experimental or quasi-experimental Case study Qualitative and quantitative – the false dichotomy

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

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