Program evaluation for social workers: foundations of evidence-based programs

by Grinnell, Richard M.

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Title Statements

Full title :Program evaluation for social workers : foundations of evidence-based programs / Richard M. Grinnell, Jr., Peter A. Gabor, Yvonne A. Unrau.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016
Edition:7th edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

Notes

"Revised editon of Program evaluation for social workers, 2012" --Verso de la page de titre.

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 531 pages : : illustrations en partie en couleur ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190227302, 0190227303
oclc:ocn945964800
LC Classification:HV40
Dewey Decimal:361.3/2

Preparing for evaluations -- Toward accountability -- Approaches and types of evaluations -- The process -- Standards -- Ethics -- Cultural competence -- Designing programs -- The program -- Theory of change and program logic models -- Implementing evaluations -- Preparing for an evaluation -- Needs assessments -- Process evaluations -- Outcome evaluations -- Efficiency evaluations -- Making decisions with data -- Data-information systems -- Making decisions -- Evaluation toolkit -- Tool a. hiring an external evaluator -- Tool b. working with an external evaluator -- Tool c. reducing evaluation anxiety -- Tool d. managing evaluation challenges -- Tool e. using common evaluation designs -- Tool f. budgeting for evaluations -- Tool g. using evaluation management strategies -- Tool h. data collection and sampling procedures -- Tool i. training and supervising data collectors -- Tool j. effective communication and reporting -- Tool k. developing an action plan -- Tool l. measuring variables -- Tool m. measuring instruments.

Subjects

Case studies Human services -- Case studies. -- Eval… Human services -- Evaluation Service social -- Gestion Services sociaux -- Études de cas. -- É… Services sociaux -- Évaluation Social work administration