Research Methods for BSW Students
(8th edition)

Richard M. Grinnell, Jr. ~ Margaret Williams ~ Yvonne A. Unrau

 

 

EVALUATION RESOURCES
 

Additional Resource Chapters
  1. The Evaluation Research and Evidence-Based Practice Partnership
    Arline Fink
  2. Evaluation Use: Both Challenge and Mandate
     Michael Quinn Patton
  3. Intended Process Uses: Impacts of Evaluative Thinking and Experiences
     Michael Quinn Patton
  4. Conceptualizing the Intervention: Alternatives for Evaluating Theories of Change
    Michael Quinn Patton
  5. The Planning Stage and Needs Assessment
    James R. Dudley
  6. Crafting Goals and Objectives
    James R. Dudley
  7. Implementation Stage: Improving How Programs and Practices Work
    James R. Dudley
  8. Understanding the Agency, the Community, and the Funder
     Soraya M. Coley and Cynthia A. Scheinberg
  9. Writing the Needs or Problem Statement
    Soraya M. Coley and Cynthia A. Scheinberg

 

Basic Concept Links

Below are links to other websites, documents and online resources that may help you with better understanding the practice of evaluation in social work.

Additional How-to-Do Manuals (free downloads)
  1. American Physiological Society.(2002). Planning and effective program evaluation: A short course for project directors. Bethesda, MD: Author.
  2. Hatry, H.P., Cowan, J., Weiner, K., & Lampkin, L.M. (2003). Developing community-wide outcome indicators for specific services.Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
  3. Horizon Research. (1997). Taking stock: A practical guide to evaluating your own programs. Chapel Hill, NC: Author.
  4. Lampkin, L.M., & Hatry, H.P. (2003). Key steps in outcome management. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
  5. Urban Institute. (2003). Surveying clients about outcomes. Washington, DC: Author.
  6. W.K. Kellogg Foundation. (2004). Logic model development guide. Battle Creek, MI: Author.
 

 

Click titles below to view related graduate textbooks

• Grinnell, R.M., Jr., & Unrau, Y.A. (Eds.). (2011). Social work research and evaluation: Foundations of evidence-based practice (9th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

• Weinbach, R.W., & Grinnell, R.M., Jr. (2010). Statistics for social workers (8th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

• Grinnell, R.M., Jr., Gabor, P.A., & Unrau, Y.A. (2010). Program evaluation for social workers: Foundations of evidence-based programs (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

 

 

  
 

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