Outline for Session 13: Evaluating your
own Practice
·
Monitoring
Client Progress
·
Historical
overview of program evaluation
·
Program
evaluation approaches
·
Practitioner-Friendly
Design
·
Feasible
Assessment Techniques
This week's topic is the final step of the
evidence-based practice model: Monitoring the implementation of
intervention. You will cover these concepts in detail in your two
research courses during the second year of the MSW program, so this is intended
to be only an introduction.
Although many of the same research tools we have
discussed this semester are used in evaluation, they are used in a very
different way, and people often confuse the two. While research is
intended to confirm that a given intervention works and is applicable beyond
the original study, evaluation is intended only to show that clients make the
changes expected from the research data about a particular intervention. So, we
will discuss the differences between research and evaluation and talk about how
research tools can be adapted to this new purpose.