Exam 11: Social Work Practice With Diverse Groups

Formative evaluations are typically implemented prior to or in the early stages of starting a program.

The step that involves demonstrating logically and empirically that the intervention is the most likely explanation for the change in the client outcome is called:

Outcome evaluation is an assessment, generally by clients, as to the aspects of the services received that were useful or detrimental.

The second step in the single-system design approach to evaluating practice is:

Universities and other research organizations are required to have institutional review boards to oversee research.

Describe the difference between formative, outcome, and process evaluations.

Process evaluations can be conducted orally.

Describe the importance of baselining.

One of the libraries cited in the text that provides free online access to systematic reviews in the areas of social welfare, criminal justice, and education is:

Examining the financial costs associate with providing a service or operating a program is called:

Evidence-based practice evolved in the field of sociology.

Summative evaluations examine the financial cost of a program.

With this type of scaling, the work toward accomplishing clients' goals is broken down into many separate actions or tasks.

Describe the steps involved in the single-system approach to evaluating social work practice.

Task achievement scaling can be used for program evaluation.

Single-subject design has also been identified as intensive or ideographic research.

The objective of _____ is to establish the beginning rate of the outcome measure before intervention occurs.

Goal attainment scaling can be done a few weeks after termination of services.

The third step in single-subject design is to implement intervention and monitor outcomes.

_____ evaluation is an assessment, generally by clients, as to the aspects of the services received that were useful or detrimental.