Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional

Evaluating Practicecontinues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. Focusing on single-system designs, Evaluating Practice, 6/e presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures, Evaluating Practice comes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs, including the innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing data (cre.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. Integrating Evaluation and Practice -- 2. Basic Principles of Conceptualization and Measurement -- 3. Specifying Problems and Goals -- 4. Developing a Measurement and Recording Plan -- 5. Behavioral Observation -- 6. Standardized Scales -- 7. Logs -- 8. Reactivity and Nonreactive Measures -- 9. Selecting a Measure -- 10. Basic Principles of Single-System Designs -- 11. Baselining -- 12. From the Case Study to the Basic Single-System Design: A-B -- 13. The Experimental Single-System Designs: A-B-A, A-B-A-B, B-A-B -- 14. Multiple Designs for Single Systems

15. Changing Intensity Designs and Successive Intervention Designs -- 16. Designs for Comparing Interventions -- 17. Selecting a Design -- 18. Basic Principles of Analysis -- 19. Visual Analysis of Single-System Design Data -- 20. Not for Practitioners Alone -- 21. References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y