Single Case Analysis and Program Evaluation

Catalog description

This course provides an in-depth study of single-case research design including assessment, experimental design, and data evaluation. Many of the best practices and interventions in the social, behavioral, and educational sciences have been the direct result of single-case research. Single-case designs provide educators, practitioners, and researchers with a structure for systematically collecting data within a framework that will enable them to demonstrate a functional relationship between their practices and changes in behavior. The end result is empirical support of the intervention or instructional method. As such, it is important for graduate students in social work to have the knowledge to design, implement, and evaluate research using single-case research designs. This course will provide students with an opportunity for detailed study of single-case research designs, the logic behind these designs, and the application of these designs to intervention research. Restriction(s): For DSW students only.