Evaluating Clients & Programs

Catalog description

This research course is concerned with formatting and carrying out plans for answering research questions and evaluating impacts of individual or program interventions. In planning research and evaluation, attention must be focused on specifying the purpose of the research, identifying the variables, developing the instruments for collecting information and administering the instruments to human subjects under conditions which safeguard the self-determination, confidentiality and physical/mental integrity of subjects. The aim of the course is to provide the student with a basic competence in the scientific method of investigation. In addition to understanding how to discover knowledge, students will become critical consumers of single subject design, program evaluation, Excel, and integrators of social work knowledge from different areas of social work curriculum. Prerequisite: admission to MSW program, Graduate Child Life Specialist certificate program, or by instructor permission.