SWK 4240 Social Work Practice Evaluation

3 Hours

Corequisites: SWK 4420

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate their own practice and effectiveness of social work service programs within which they work. This course reviews a variety of evaluations designs, methodologies and techniques applicable to evaluating generalist social work practice. Attention is given to the social work practice continuum of problem definition, goal setting, intervention and the evaluation of goal attainment. The social worker’s ethical responsibility to monitor one’s practice, as well as the recognize ethical issues which may arise in the evaluation of practice and in the use of evaluation findings are examined. Students will be expected to review and critique literature relevant to their practice in their field agency and develop an evaluation proposal. They will then collect data in the field, analyze these data and present their results to the class.