Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional (5th Edition)

Focusing On Single-system Designs, Evaluating Practice, 6/e Presents Clear Guidelines On Conceptualizing And Measuring Problems, Developing Practice-oriented Evaluation Designs, Understanding And Analyzing Data, And Ethical Guidelines For Practice Evaluation. Unsurpassed Among Human Service Evaluation Texts For Bringing Clarity To Evaluation Procedures, Evaluating Practice Comes With A Free Cd-rom Featuring Numerous Programs, Including The Innovative Singwin Program For Analyzing Data (created By Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, And Heidi Heft Laporte Of Yeshiva University), And The Cass And Caap Programs (created By Walter Hudson) For Managing Cases And Scoring Scales.--publisher's Website. What Are You Getting Into? -- Integrating Evaluation And Practice -- Introduction To Single-system Designs -- What Are Single-system Designs? -- Single-system Designs And Classical Research: The Knowledge-building Context -- Single-system Evaluation, Qualitative Research, And Quantitative Research -- Advantages Of Using Single-system Designs In Practice -- A Walk Through The Evaluation Process -- Conceptualizing And Measuring Trrgets And Objectives/goals -- Basic Principles Of Conceptualization And Measurement -- What Is Conceptualization? -- What Is Measurement? -- Definition As A First Step In Measurement -- Can Everything Be Measured? -- Key Characteristics Of All Measures -- Specifying Problems And Goals -- Introduction: From General Problems To Specific Targets Of Intervention -- Specifying Client Concerns: Identifying And Clarifying Problems And Potentials -- Specifying Goals And Objectives -- Using Goal Attainment Scaling (gas) To Establish Goals -- Setting Goals In Groups -- Problems And Issues In Setting Goals -- Developing A Measurement And Recording Plan -- Steps In Developing A Recording Plan -- Charting: Putting Your Information On Graphs -- Problem-oriented Records (por) -- Use Of Computers In Evaluation And Practice -- Computer Assisted Social Services (cass): A User's Guide -- Installing Cass -- Behavioral Observation -- General Guidelines For Behavioral Observation -- Sampling Behaviors -- Instruments For Recording Behaviors -- Ensuring Accurate Observations -- Methods Of Recording Behavior -- Analog Situations. Martin Bloom, Joel Fischer, John G. Orme. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 673-699) And Indexes. System Requirements For Accompanying Cd-rom: Microsoft Word ; Microsoft Excel ; Microsoft Powerpoint ; Cd-rom Drive.