Log in
Building the Knowledge Base of Nonprofit Management:
A Searchable Database
Training social work staff to evaluate practice: a pre/post/then comparison
Abstract
It is increasingly important, in an era of accountability and diminishing resources, for human service agencies to demonstrate the efficacy of their programs. The use of single-systems designs by agency-based social workers to monitor and evaluate practice is one way to accomplish this task. These designs allow the social worker to monitor client progress by systematically collecting data before, during, and after intervention. Additionally, the data collected also can provide supervisors and administrators with important information to enhance decision making processes, and for use in quality assurance, peer review, or documentation of the effectiveness of overall services. The study, based on a training program for supervisors and staff in the use of single-systems designs, show results indicating that appropriate training can produce significant increases in skills in monitoring and evaluating one's own practice. (Journal abstract.)
Journal
(1990)
vol14
no1
pages119-133
Categories
-
Education and Training
-
Staff Development and Training
