Deck 1: Evaluation and Social Work: Making the Connection

Question 1

Jill wants to conduct an evaluation on a private, non-profit substance abuse program that she oversees. She conducted an evaluation on this same program several years ago; however, new interventions have been added since that research was completed. What is the first step Jill should do during the evaluation process?

A) Identification and involvement of stakeholders
B) Identification of the problem or concern to be evaluated
C) Identification of funding sources
D) Identification of needs assessment

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Social work practitioners can provide interventions in a wide variety of programs. The programs may be community based, office based, or within an inpatient setting. Typically, the framework of the program will affect the types of interventions provided. According to the text, what is the relationship between programs and practices?

A) They are exclusively different
B) The relationship is linear
C) They are closely intertwined
D) The relationship has no clear parameters

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) mandates critical thinking as one of the basic tenets of a social work education. In research, critical thinking affects both the producers and clients of research. What issue can emerge if program evaluators are not critical thinkers?

A) Not understanding the larger social forces that effect clients
B) Tendency to underemphasize psychological factors
C) Tendency to underemphasize sociological factors
D) Inappropriate data analysis procedures

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Program evaluations can be useful for providing treatment/services that are evidence-based. Many stakeholders have interests in program evaluations, including social workers, funding sources, and clients of treatment/services provided. According to the text, what is not a component of a program evaluation?

A) Informed consent protocols
B) Program outcomes
C) Provide useful information for a cohort of clients
D) Evaluations of individual clients

Question 5

Shamika is in the process of conducting a program evaluation. As a social work administer she intermittently evaluates the outcomes of a vocational rehabilitation program. She currently is working on developing the research questions and hypotheses. Which step of conducting a program evaluation involves the designing of research questions and hypotheses?

A) Identify any constraints
B) Identify the problem
C) Implement the evaluation
D) Plan the evaluation

Question 6

Social work researchers are planning to evaluate the outcomes of a macro-level crime reduction program. They have been consulting with many groups about the project, including municipal politicians interested in understanding how the outcomes will be measured. According to the text, what is the name given to special interest groups that have interests in an evaluation?

A) Stakeholders
B) Task groups
C) Treatment groups
D) Social environment

Question 7

Concerning the vignette in question #6, the social work researchers are employing multiple safeguards to ensure that the evaluation does not facilitate physical or psychological harm to any of the community's residents. What are the researchers most likely using to ensure this?

A) Morals
B) Ethics
C) Laws
D) Paradigms

Question 8

Keith has designed a program for helping geriatric clients in an assisted living facility. He spent several months designing the program, and now he is training technicians and clinical social workers how to implement the program. What is the definition of a program?

A) Activities that one practitioner offers
B) Services and goods of a program
C) A subunit of a social agency with a set of services with a common goal
D) A subunit of an intervention with a set of services with a common goal

Question 9

Program evaluators want to determine the quality of an outreach program. They carefully follow the systematic steps of conducting the evaluation, making sure that all important outcomes and interventions are included. After completing the study, they determine that the outreach program has a significant amount of quality. In terms of a program evaluation, what does the quality of an outcome suggest?

A) Relevance of the interventions
B) Services delivered as intended and done very well
C) Interventions effectiveness at promoting change
D) Program is providing in-depth attention to each client

Question 10

Erica has extensive experience as a program evaluator. She routinely uses rigorous methodologies to discover an outcome that exists, not an outcome that is desired. Further, she tends to adhere to a strict code of ethics. According to the common characteristics of evaluations, what is this vignette describing?

A) Being accountable
B) Use of political processes
C) Scientific research methods
D) Social Work Administration