Advanced Social Work Research

Catalog description

This advanced course builds knowledge and skills for systematically evaluating programs and practice. It enhances effective and ethical social work practice by teaching skills necessary to design, implement, and empirically assess intervention with clients and programs. Previously acquired research knowledge is built upon for elaborating on the conceptual, methodological and administrative aspects of evaluation research. This course is designed to cover hypothesis testing in the behavioral sciences, building on concepts learned in a research methods course. The logic, assumptions, computation and interpretation of inferential statistics will be covered, including one-sample, related-samples, and independent-samples t-tests; one-way and two-way ANOVA; correlation and bivariate regression; and non-parametric procedures. In addition to the logic of hypothesis testing, this course will integrate SPSS as a tool for data management and hypothesis testing. Traditional Option Prerequisite: MSW-507 , MSW-510 Advanced Standing Option Prerequisites: MSW-514